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Joining multiple paths at once

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Joining multiple paths at once

In this exercise we're going to take these three disparate paths that we drew with the Arc tool and modify it as well with the White Arrow tool and we're going to join them into a single half-a-heart. We're going to do it using a feature that has been greatly enhanced inside of Illustrator CS5. So I have gone ahead and saved my progress as My better half.ai found inside the 04_line_art folder. I am going to press Ctrl+; or Command+; on a Mac to hide the guidelines, because they're getting in my face right now and I want a clear look at my heart. I'm going to go ahead and switch to the Selection tool, the Black Arrow tool and I am going to drag this arc away from the others, so that you can see that we have three independent paths at this point. What I really want is a continuous path, because otherwise it won't stroke correctly, we won't be able to fill it correctly, and so on. So I'll press Ctrl+Z, Command+Z on the Mac to undo that modification. Now, in the old days, that is…

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