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Joining your line segments

Joining your line segments - Illustrator Tutorial

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Joining your line segments

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- In this movie, we'll join our independent line segments to create filled path outlines. Notice, if I go ahead and zoom in right here, for example, that I've got a little clip in the corner of my right-hand smoke stack. That's because these two lines right here represent what are known as independent paths inside of Illustrator. In other words, this line segment right here does not continue into this one. What we need to do in order to continue them and end up with a nice, sharp corner is join the paths. So I'm going to press ctrl + 0 or cmd + 0 on the Mac in order to center my zoom. Then I'll press the "v" key to switch to my Black Arrow Tool and I'll partially marquee all three of the line segments that are associated with the right-hand smoke stack. Now, I'll go up to the Object menu, choose Path and choose Join. Or, you have this keyboard shortcut of ctrl + j or cmd + j on the Mac which I will be using to join the other paths. All right, so go ahead and choose the command and…

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