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Merging shapes

Merging shapes

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Merging shapes

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- One of the more compelling workflows in Illustrator is to take simple or basic shapes and combine or merge them together in ways that create more complex artwork. Take our Routes icon here. We've got the map portion of it that we're working on right now, and what we'd like to do is take this sort of solid blue shape underneath and make a frame out of it, so that it's overlaying the beige shape and the orange shape so that there's no gaps in between where two pieces of artwork line up. Well, if we were drawing that from scratch, that would be kind of hard to do, but by combining shapes together it becomes a really simple exercise. I'm working with the hruns-icon file, from the 03_10 directory. Once again I've created this little preview pane over here on the lower right-hand side, and in my Layers panel, I'm making sure that I'm working on the Routes color layer, and that all of my other layers are locked down. Again, I can hold the Option or the Alt key down, click on the lock icon…

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