1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:02.03 - [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll introduce you to 2 00:00:02.03 --> 00:00:04.09 the six remaining Pathfinder operations. 3 00:00:04.09 --> 00:00:07.03 Divide through Minus Back. 4 00:00:07.03 --> 00:00:10.01 And the first thing to know about them is none of them 5 00:00:10.01 --> 00:00:13.03 allow you to create a custom shape which is why they get 6 00:00:13.03 --> 00:00:16.09 their own row down here at bottom of the Pathfinder panel. 7 00:00:16.09 --> 00:00:19.00 The other thing to know is that they're a 8 00:00:19.00 --> 00:00:20.08 very uneven utility. 9 00:00:20.08 --> 00:00:24.06 A couple of them, Divide and Minus Back, are quite useful. 10 00:00:24.06 --> 00:00:27.05 The others are just plain weird but I figured you'd still 11 00:00:27.05 --> 00:00:30.07 like to know how they work so here goes. 12 00:00:30.07 --> 00:00:33.04 I'm going to start it off by zooming into Divide and 13 00:00:33.04 --> 00:00:36.09 notice that these guys have daggers or double daggers next 14 00:00:36.09 --> 00:00:40.00 to them and I'll explain what that's about in the next movie 15 00:00:40.00 --> 00:00:43.06 but for now I'll go ahead and marquee these two shapes here, 16 00:00:43.06 --> 00:00:46.03 the purple square and the green ring. 17 00:00:46.03 --> 00:00:49.09 And I'll click on the first icon in the second row, Divide. 18 00:00:49.09 --> 00:00:52.08 And what that's done is it's divided the paths according to 19 00:00:52.08 --> 00:00:54.04 how they overlap. 20 00:00:54.04 --> 00:00:57.04 Now notice once again we have a group, we will after every 21 00:00:57.04 --> 00:00:59.03 one of these operations. 22 00:00:59.03 --> 00:01:02.01 And so, I'll go up to the object menu and choose the end 23 00:01:02.01 --> 00:01:05.02 group command or, better still in the future, I'll just 24 00:01:05.02 --> 00:01:08.03 press Control Shift G or Command Shift G on the Mac. 25 00:01:08.03 --> 00:01:11.05 And now notice that I can drag this guy away. 26 00:01:11.05 --> 00:01:15.07 We also have this little sliver right there and this piece. 27 00:01:15.07 --> 00:01:18.05 And we have one more invisible path that I have to kind of 28 00:01:18.05 --> 00:01:20.01 hunt around for it here. 29 00:01:20.01 --> 00:01:22.04 I've got my smart guides up by the way, that's why it's 30 00:01:22.04 --> 00:01:25.02 highlighting but notice that my arrow cursor has a little 31 00:01:25.02 --> 00:01:27.07 square next to it which shows me that there's something 32 00:01:27.07 --> 00:01:30.06 under it right now and so when I click, 33 00:01:30.06 --> 00:01:32.03 I will select that path. 34 00:01:32.03 --> 00:01:35.04 And just to make it visible, I'll press the D key to apply 35 00:01:35.04 --> 00:01:37.02 the default fill and stroke. 36 00:01:37.02 --> 00:01:40.02 And I'll right-click on the path, choose a range and 37 00:01:40.02 --> 00:01:43.05 choose bring to front, which also has a keyboard shortcut 38 00:01:43.05 --> 00:01:46.02 of Control Shift right bracket, that's Command Shift 39 00:01:46.02 --> 00:01:47.08 right bracket on the Mac. 40 00:01:47.08 --> 00:01:50.06 Another one that I will be using in the future because this 41 00:01:50.06 --> 00:01:52.00 happens a lot. 42 00:01:52.00 --> 00:01:54.05 Any of these Pathfinder operations have a habit of tracing 43 00:01:54.05 --> 00:01:56.03 the negative space. 44 00:01:56.03 --> 00:01:58.07 Alright, so, you could see how that might be useful, 45 00:01:58.07 --> 00:02:01.06 you'd want to divide up your path outlines and 46 00:02:01.06 --> 00:02:05.00 then reunite them using the unite operations. 47 00:02:05.00 --> 00:02:07.03 So that's typically what people do with that one. 48 00:02:07.03 --> 00:02:09.07 Trim, I'm not sure anybody does anything with. 49 00:02:09.07 --> 00:02:12.06 What happens is after you get done marquee-ing your two 50 00:02:12.06 --> 00:02:16.05 paths, then you click on trim and it basically uses the 51 00:02:16.05 --> 00:02:20.04 forward path to trim a hole on the path behind it. 52 00:02:20.04 --> 00:02:23.05 Problem is for reasons that have always defied me, 53 00:02:23.05 --> 00:02:26.07 it throws away the strokes and so I'll go ahead and press 54 00:02:26.07 --> 00:02:29.05 Control Shift G or Command Shift G on the Mac to un-group 55 00:02:29.05 --> 00:02:32.04 these shapes and then I'll click off them, we'll go ahead 56 00:02:32.04 --> 00:02:34.06 and move this guy down so you can see that the square has 57 00:02:34.06 --> 00:02:37.08 been broken but the ring has not been broken and 58 00:02:37.08 --> 00:02:40.01 then we've got an invisible path and I'll go ahead and 59 00:02:40.01 --> 00:02:43.09 find it by pressing Control Y or Command Y on the Mac in 60 00:02:43.09 --> 00:02:46.03 order to switch to the outline mode. 61 00:02:46.03 --> 00:02:48.05 And then I'll click on it of course to select it and 62 00:02:48.05 --> 00:02:51.00 I'll press control Y or command Y again. 63 00:02:51.00 --> 00:02:53.09 And I'll go ahead and drag this guy over here and bring in 64 00:02:53.09 --> 00:02:56.05 the front by pressing Control Shift right bracket or 65 00:02:56.05 --> 00:02:58.05 Command Shift right bracket on the Mac and I'll tap the 66 00:02:58.05 --> 00:03:02.09 D key in order to give it its default colors. 67 00:03:02.09 --> 00:03:05.04 Alright, so that's Trim for you, you might like it, 68 00:03:05.04 --> 00:03:08.02 you might not, you might find a use for it, 69 00:03:08.02 --> 00:03:10.08 I certainly never do but it's there. 70 00:03:10.08 --> 00:03:13.09 Alright, now let's look at Merge which is also a strange one 71 00:03:13.09 --> 00:03:18.00 It unites shapes much like Unite does but IT does so 72 00:03:18.00 --> 00:03:21.05 according to their fill colors so the stroke color doesn't 73 00:03:21.05 --> 00:03:23.07 matter at all, just the fill color. 74 00:03:23.07 --> 00:03:26.07 And so I'll go ahead and click on Merge, which is the third 75 00:03:26.07 --> 00:03:29.08 icon on the second row and we end up with this effect again. 76 00:03:29.08 --> 00:03:33.02 Like Trim, it throws away the strokes but now what I'll do 77 00:03:33.02 --> 00:03:35.06 is press Control Shift G or Command Shift G on the Mac 78 00:03:35.06 --> 00:03:38.03 in order to un-group these shapes. 79 00:03:38.03 --> 00:03:40.05 I'll shift-click on these two guys so this green ring 80 00:03:40.05 --> 00:03:43.00 has been married to the green rectangle and 81 00:03:43.00 --> 00:03:45.02 the purple rectangle has been changed to this shape 82 00:03:45.02 --> 00:03:48.00 that sort of runs through to the other side, so it's still 83 00:03:48.00 --> 00:03:51.02 one shape but then we have these negative space tracings 84 00:03:51.02 --> 00:03:54.00 as well, I'll bring them to the front by pressing 85 00:03:54.00 --> 00:03:56.07 control shift right bracket, command shift right bracket 86 00:03:56.07 --> 00:04:00.01 on the Mac, and I'll tap the D key so that we can see those 87 00:04:00.01 --> 00:04:02.01 otherwise invisible shapes. 88 00:04:02.01 --> 00:04:04.05 Now just got to move these guys around so you can see 89 00:04:04.05 --> 00:04:05.09 what they look like. 90 00:04:05.09 --> 00:04:07.08 Alright, now let's check out Crop. 91 00:04:07.08 --> 00:04:10.04 Crop uses the forward shape to clip the rear one. 92 00:04:10.04 --> 00:04:13.01 So notice if I click on the Crop which is the fourth icon 93 00:04:13.01 --> 00:04:15.09 on the bottom row, we get rid of the rectangle, 94 00:04:15.09 --> 00:04:19.05 it's disappeared but notice if I go ahead and press Control 95 00:04:19.05 --> 00:04:22.07 Shift G or Command Shift G on a Mac, in order to ungroup 96 00:04:22.07 --> 00:04:23.08 these shapes. 97 00:04:23.08 --> 00:04:25.09 We'll go ahead and drag this guy over and then I'll just 98 00:04:25.09 --> 00:04:29.00 kind of marquee this area and tap the D key. 99 00:04:29.00 --> 00:04:32.06 You can see that we actually have the inner circle now 100 00:04:32.06 --> 00:04:35.08 cut away from the outer one and we have that clipped ring 101 00:04:35.08 --> 00:04:37.08 left over as well. 102 00:04:37.08 --> 00:04:40.05 So if you're trying to do some hard crops, this might be 103 00:04:40.05 --> 00:04:43.08 something that you're interested in, although, once again 104 00:04:43.08 --> 00:04:45.06 it gets rid of the stroke. 105 00:04:45.06 --> 00:04:48.08 Alright, so now I'm going to go ahead and scroll down to 106 00:04:48.08 --> 00:04:52.02 this guy right here, Outline and I'll marquee it. 107 00:04:52.02 --> 00:04:56.04 This one is a little bit like Divide but notice if I go 108 00:04:56.04 --> 00:04:59.05 ahead and click on Outline, which is the second to last icon 109 00:04:59.05 --> 00:05:03.03 on the bottom row, we lose the fills, and actually the fills 110 00:05:03.03 --> 00:05:07.03 and strokes get swapped with each other so that we have the 111 00:05:07.03 --> 00:05:10.04 light purple and the light green for our strokes now. 112 00:05:10.04 --> 00:05:14.04 We also get very strangely a line weight value of zero point 113 00:05:14.04 --> 00:05:17.07 which is not something you can normally even enter in 114 00:05:17.07 --> 00:05:20.07 Illustrator that just sets your stroke to none but 115 00:05:20.07 --> 00:05:23.01 in the case of this operation, it gives us actually 116 00:05:23.01 --> 00:05:25.01 a one point stroke. 117 00:05:25.01 --> 00:05:28.02 Just so we can see things a little better though, I'll go 118 00:05:28.02 --> 00:05:30.06 ahead and raise that line weight to three points and 119 00:05:30.06 --> 00:05:32.07 I'll press Control Shift G, Cmmand Shift G on the Mac 120 00:05:32.07 --> 00:05:35.02 in order to un-group the path outlines. 121 00:05:35.02 --> 00:05:38.02 And now I'll just move these guys and you can see what we 122 00:05:38.02 --> 00:05:42.02 get is a bunch of open paths that have been divided away 123 00:05:42.02 --> 00:05:45.07 from each other, tons and tons so at each intersection we 124 00:05:45.07 --> 00:05:48.02 get a different open path outline and, in fact, 125 00:05:48.02 --> 00:05:52.01 this is the one and only Pathfinder operation that 126 00:05:52.01 --> 00:05:53.09 delivers open paths. 127 00:05:53.09 --> 00:05:56.02 Every single one of the other ones leaves you with 128 00:05:56.02 --> 00:05:57.08 closed paths. 129 00:05:57.08 --> 00:06:00.04 Alright, and finally we have Minus Back which is the 130 00:06:00.04 --> 00:06:03.02 opposite, as you might expect, of Minus Front. 131 00:06:03.02 --> 00:06:07.01 Minus Front is often times very useful as is Minus Back. 132 00:06:07.01 --> 00:06:09.08 You have to apply it as a static operation however, 133 00:06:09.08 --> 00:06:12.03 but notice if I go ahead and marquee these three paths, 134 00:06:12.03 --> 00:06:15.06 we're going to cut the two rear paths, that is to say the 135 00:06:15.06 --> 00:06:19.08 purple square and the pink triangle from the single forward 136 00:06:19.08 --> 00:06:21.06 path which is the green ring. 137 00:06:21.06 --> 00:06:23.06 And you can see that if I go ahead and click on the icon 138 00:06:23.06 --> 00:06:27.08 we end up with those two paths being cut away from the green 139 00:06:27.08 --> 00:06:30.06 ring to produce this effect right here. 140 00:06:30.06 --> 00:06:32.06 Alright, so there you have it, folks. 141 00:06:32.06 --> 00:06:36.05 That's how you take advantage of the six static Pathfinder 142 00:06:36.05 --> 00:06:40.00 operations, starting with Divide and ending with Minus Back. 143 00:06:40.00 --> 00:06:42.01 Here inside Illustrator.