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Joining your line segments

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Joining your line segments

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- [Instructor] All right, now we need to take what I'm calling this glass pyramid and turn it into this lush green mountain. And to make this happen, we need to join our open path outlines, or open line segments, in order to make these closed shapes that you see here. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch back and the first thing I'm going to do is grab this line and Shift click on this line. So, when you click on a line, you select it independently of the other ones. If you click and then Shift click, the Shift click is going to add to the selection, it's actually a toggle by the way, if I were to Shift click again, I would deselect that line. In any event, I'll Shift click on it and now I want to join these two lines together with straight segments by the way, and I'm going to do that by going up to the object menu, dropping down to the word path, and then choosing the first command in the sub menu, join, which has a…

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