- [Voiceover] In this movie, we're going to unite
our various primitive shapes in order to create
these two custom J-shaped paths right here.
And then we'll do a little bit of rotating,
in order to begin the process of creating this star logo.
And so the first thing we want to do is switch to the
white arrow tool, by pressing the A key,
and then I'll go ahead and marquee between these
two rectangles like so, all the way
to the top of the smallest circle.
And so you should end up selecting these four
anchor points right here, which represent
the top points in each one of the circles.
Then press the backspace key, or the delete
key on a Mac, to get rid of them.
Alright, now, in order to better see what's going on here,
I'm going to press the V key to
switch to my black arrow tool.
I'll go ahead and marquee the rectangles right there,
and I'm going to hide them by going up to the object menu,
choosing hide, and then choose selection,
or you have that keyboard shortcut of control three,
or command three on a Mac.
Then, go ahead and marquee these two innermost half circles
right there, just those two, and then you want to join them
by either going up to the Object menu, choosing Path,
and choosing Join, or much more easily,
you have that keyboard shortcut of
control J on the PC, or command J on the Mac.
And notice that goes ahead and draws one segment
between the two paths, so we've now joined two
open paths into a single open path.
To join the open path into a closed one,
just go ahead and press control J,
or command J on a Mac again.
Now we need to do the same thing with these
outermost half circles, so go ahead and partially
marquee them and press control J
or command J on a Mac two times in a row.
Alright, now we need to bring back the rectangles,
so go up to the Object menu, and choose Show All.
And then what we need to do is marquee these two paths
right there, the rectangle and the half circle
and then go ahead and shift click on
this guy, so that everything associated
with the outermost J is selected.
Then go up to the Window menu, and choose Pathfinder,
to bring up the Pathfinder panel, and click on this
very first icon, which represents Unite,
and that's going to fuse those three
closed paths into one big one.
Now, you can either marquee the three innermost paths
or you can go up to the Select menu and
choose the Inverse command, in order to
reverse this selection like so.
And then, go ahead and once again click on Unite,
or you can take advantage of that keyboard shortcut
that we discussed back in chapter 17, which is
control 4, or command 4 on a Mac.
Alright, I'm going to go ahead and hide the Pathfinder panel
because now we need to color these shapes, by going up here
to the first swatch in the control panel.
And then I went with this shade of purple right here,
the one that begins with R147, but of course
you can select any color scheme you like.
And next I'll go ahead and click on the outermost shape here
and change its fill to this bright shade
of green, which begins with R=140.
Alright, at this point, we no longer need the strokes,
so I'll just marquee both the shapes, and click on
the stroke swatch right here, and change it to none.
Alright, now I want to begin the creation of the star logo.
So I'll go ahead and drag by this top anchor point
right up here, all the way down while pressing the shift key
so then constraining the angle of my drag to exactly
vertical, until I snap into alignment
with the horiztonal guideline.
And if you're working along with me, you should see
a DY value of 225 points there in that head's up display.
Alright, now this guy's obviously
a little to big to fit on the artboard.
So I'll go ahead and switch to the scale tool.
Once again, you can get it by pressing the S key.
And you want the transformation origin to be right here,
at the intersection of these two guidelines,
so go ahead and alt, or option click,
to bring up the scale dialogue box.
And you can see I've already done this in advance.
I've set the uniform value to 80%, that's it,
at which point just go ahead and click copy,
in order to accept that change.
Alright, now we need to rotate a copy of these shapes,
by switching to the rotate tool.
Again, you can get it by pressing the R key.
And then go ahead and alt or option click at that
same transformation origin, even though, by the way,
each one of the transform tools will go ahead and share
the origin point from the last used tool.
Problem is, if I were to just press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac, notice that shifts
that transformation origin to a new
position, which is not what we want.
So, I'll go ahead and cancel out.
And then I'll alt or option click right there at the
intersection of those two guidelines, to bring up
the rotate dialogue box but place
the transformation origin right there.
And now I need to figure out the angle.
Well I know that a full circle is 360 degrees,
and I'm looking for five points on my star.
So I'll just go ahead and enter slash five,
and press the tab key to have Illustrator do the math
for me, which ends up being 72 degrees.
At which point, I'll click copy, in order to
create a copy of those shapes.
Alright, now these things aren't going
to look right together, because they need to be angled.
Basically, we need to hack off the
edges of these shapes right here.
So, what I'm going to do, just to make things as obvious
as possible, is I'm going to press the V key,
in order to switch to the black arrow tool, and I'll click
on this rearmost green shape, and I'll just change its
color to make it stand out, to let's say, orange.
It really doesn't matter.
And then what you want to do is shift click on the
green shape to select it as well,
and now return to the Pathfinder panel, and this time,
you wanna click on this final icon, minus back,
to subtract the orange shape from the green one.
And we end up with this effect right here.
Because we slice through the path, we end up with a group.
And so, to get rid of that, go up to the Object menu,
and choose the Ungroup command, or of course you can
press control shift G, or command shift G on a Mac.
And then shift click on this guy to deselect him.
That will leave this one selected so that you can
press the backspace key, or the
delete key on the Mac, to get rid of it.
Now, I believe I've made a tragic mistake,
because I meant to copy that shape, before I lopped it off.
So, what I'm going to have to do to bring this
guy back is rotate him back into place.
But that's no problem, so I'll just select
the big green path, and then, I will select
the rotate tool, and I'll alt or option click
at the intersection of those two guidelines
and I will just change the 72 to a negative 72.
And I'll click on the copy button,
better do it right this time,
in order to create a copy of that shape.
Alright, notice it goes up too high.
So what I'm going to need to do is press the A key
to switch to the white arrow tool, click off the path
outline to deselect it, then just click on its top,
right there, to select that top segment, independently
of the rest of the path, and drag it down while pressing
the shift key to constrain the
angle of the drag to exactly vertical.
Now, press the V key to switch back to the black arrow tool,
marquee these two shapes, and this time, we want this icon
minus front, in order to cut the front shape
out of the rear one, and we end up with this effect here.
Alright, now I'll just zoom out here.
I'll click on this purple shape right there,
we no longer need it anymore
because it's not shaped correctly.
And I'll press the backspace key, or delete key
to get rid of it, and then I'll marquee both of these guys,
press the R key to switch to the rotate tool,
alt or option click at the intersection
of those two guidelines, make sure the angle
still reads negative 72 degrees, and click copy.
And we now have shapes that fit together.
Or, at least, they mostly fit together.
So these edges over here are fitting.
However, the top edges aren't.
So what I need to do is modify those top edges.
And I'm gonna do that using the shear tool,
which I will introduce you to in the next movie.