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How to combine objects in Illustrator

 

There are several tools that allow you to cut and divide shapes. Choose 2 Bird 1 from the Artboard Navigation menu in the lower-left corner of the Document window. Select the Zoom tool in the Tools panel, and click twice on the red shape in the upper-right corner of the artboard to zoom in. Select the Selection tool in the Tools panel, and click the red shape to select it.

With the shape selected, in the Tools panel, click and hold down the Eraser tool , and select the Scissors tool. If you click the stroke of a closed shape a circle, for example with the Scissors tool, it simply cuts the path so that it becomes open a path with two end points.

You can simply click OK and try again. Cuts made with the Scissors tool must be on a line or a curve rather than on an end point of an open path. When you click with the Scissors tool, a new anchor point is created and is selected. Select the Direct Selection tool , and drag the anchor point you just clicked to the left. Drag the other anchor point, from where you originally cut the path with the scissors, up and to the left see the figure. It is, however, necessary for a path to be closed if you want a stroke to appear around the entire fill area.

If you select the path, you can use the Join command to create a line segment between the end points, closing the path.

When more than one open path is selected, you can join them to create a closed path. You can also join the end points of two separate paths. Next, you will join the ends of the red path to create a single closed shape.

Select the Selection tool in the Tools panel. Click away from the red path to deselect it, and then click in the red fill to reselect it. This step is important because only one anchor point was left selected from the previous section. If you were to choose the Join command with only one anchor point selected, an error message would appear.

By selecting the whole path, when you apply the Join command, Illustrator simply finds the two ends of the path and connects them with a straight line. When you apply the Join command to two or more open paths, Illustrator first looks for and joins the paths that have end points stationed closest to each other. This process is repeated every time you apply the Join command until all paths are joined.

Select the Eyedropper tool in the Tools panel, and click the blue circle in the center of the artboard. The Eyedropper tool samples the appearance attributes like stroke and fill from what you click and applies those same appearance attributes to the selected artwork.

Select the Selection tool, and drag the formerly red shape into position like you see in the figure. Another way to cut a shape is by using the Knife tool. To cut with the Knife tool, you drag across a shape, and the result is two closed paths.

Choose 3 Bird 2 from the Artboard Navigation menu in the lower-left corner of the Document window. Click and hold down the mouse on the Scissors tool , and select the Knife tool.

Pressing the Caps Lock key will turn the Knife tool pointer into a more precise cursor. This can make it easier to see where the cut will happen. Position the Knife pointer above the green shape toward the top of the artboard. Starting above the shape see the red X in the figure , drag down all the way across the shape to cut the shape into two.

Dragging across a shape with the Knife tool makes a very free-form cut that is not straight at all. Position the pointer above the green shape, to the right of where you just cut. Release the mouse button and then the keys.

Pressing the Shift key as well constrains the cut to 45 degrees. While pressing the keys in the previous step, try making two more cuts to the right of the cut you just made.

See the figure for roughly where to cut. Select the Selection tool , and click the first green shape from the left to select it. Click to view larger image. When you hover the pointer over a color in the panel that appears, you can see a yellow tooltip with the color name appear. Click the green shape farthest to the right to select it. Choose a red color from the fill color in the Control panel. With three green shapes left, click the middle green shape to select it.

Drag across all of the shapes you cut to select them. Change the stroke weight to 0 in the Control panel. The Eraser tool lets you erase any area of your vector artwork, regardless of the structure. You can use the Eraser tool on paths, compound paths, paths inside Live Paint groups, and clipping content.

With the Selection tool , select the smaller white circle toward the upper-left corner of the artboard. If you leave all objects deselected, you can erase any object that the tool touches, across all layers. Click and hold down the mouse on the Knife tool , and select the Eraser tool in the Tools panel.

Double-click the Eraser tool to edit the tool properties. In the Eraser Tool Options dialog box, change Size to 20 pt. Click OK. Position the pointer off the upper-left corner of the white circle where you see the red X in the figure. When you release the mouse button, the top half of the circle is erased, and the circle is still a closed path.

Change the stroke weight to 0 in the Control panel, and choose a blue color from the fill color. Select the Selection tool , and click the white circle in the lower-right corner of the artboard. Select the Eraser tool in the Tools panel. Press the Shift key, and starting off the left side of the white circle, drag across the top half of the circle. Release the mouse button and then the Shift key. If you need to erase a large part of a shape, you can always adjust the eraser size by using the Eraser Tool Options dialog box or by pressing either of the bracket keys [ or ].

Drag across the remaining shape at the top to erase it completely. You may need to drag across it a few times to erase it all. With the last part of the circle still selected, select the Eyedropper tool in the Tools panel, and click the small blue circle you erased part of earlier in the upper-left corner of the artboard.

This copies the appearance attributes like fill and stroke from the small shape to the larger shape. In the Rotate dialog box, change Angle to , and select Preview to see the change. Drag each shape from its center onto the large blue circle in the center to create a bird see the figure for guidance. I would like to receive exclusive offers and hear about products from Adobe Press and its family of brands.

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Chapter 7: Creating 3D Shapes Demonstrates how to extrude 2D shapes into 3D shapes, for example creating cylinders from circles and boxes from rectangles. Chapter 8: The Shaper Tool Demonstrates how to draw standard shapes by drawing rough freehand sketches on the Artboard using the Shaper Tool.

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Chapter Multiple Artboard Documents This chapter demonstrates how to create documents that have multiple Artboards pages. Chapter Useful Tools To complete the module some of Illustrator's handy tools are demonstrated, including saving images for the web, saving documents in different formats, drawling graphs, adding arrowheads to lines, using Photoshop effects and saving styles.

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Chapter Using Layers 20 pages. Chapter The Pen Tool 20 pages. Chapter The Curvature Tool 14 pages. Chapter Perspective Drawing 26 pages.

Chapter Using Envelopes 12 pages. Chapter Creating Masks 16 pages.

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