- All right, so far, we've seen how to add
and subtract shapes using the Shape Builder Tool.
In this movie, I'll show you how to divide shapes
into pieces, and I'll also show you
how you can marquee shapes by pressing the shift key.
All right, I'll go ahead and switch over to this version
of the document, and notice that I switch back
to the Black Arrow Tool up here at the top of the toolbox.
At which point, I'm going to marquee the three shapes
that are going to make up our A.
So we have two triangles drawn,
once again using the Polygon Tool,
and then this rectangle.
All right, now I'll go ahead and select
the Shape Builder Tool.
And notice that in addition to dragging,
and you could do freeform drags these days,
you can also just click with the tool.
So I'm going to press ctrl + z or cmd + z on the Mac
to undo that change,
and I'm just going to click in this intersection
right there.
And that's going to divide the shapes
into a bunch of pieces.
And let me show you what that looks like.
I'll go ahead and switch back to my Black Arrow Tool,
and I'll click off the shapes to deselect them.
And I'll start moving these guys out here like so.
And so you can see that everything is broken apart,
and I've even managed to cut a hole
in the rearmost triangle, all right?
So I'm going to go ahead and undo those moves,
and then with this path right there selected,
I'm going to shift click on this one
and just press the backspace key, or the delete key
on the Mac to get rid of them.
All right, now I'll go ahead and marquee these shapes
once again, and then I'll switch back
to my Shape Builder Tool,
and then I'll just go ahead and drag
across that bar there so that I'm connecting the bar
to the big upside down V in order to make an A.
And then I'll just go ahead and drag across this area
to unite it as well, and then I'll subtract
each of these shapes here,
not by alt of opt dragging, but rather just buy alt clicking
or opt clicking on the Mac.
And we end up with this letter A.
All right, now what's great about this
is we can now use it to add some depth to the letters.
So in other words, we're going to give it
some vertical sides by pressing the V key
to switch back to the Black Arrow Tool.
And then I'll just drag this top point down
while pressing the shift key
until I move it down about this far.
And then I'll press the alt key or the opt key on the Mac
and release in order to create a duplicate.
All right, now I'm just going to go ahead
and right click on this shape, choose Arrange
and choose Send to Back
so that it's in the back of the original A,
and I'll change it's color by clicking on the first swatch
up here in the control panel
and selecting this dark blue,
which is R=46 G=49 B=146.
It looks like that.
All right, now I want to add some edges
by first selecting the Line Segment Tool
from the Line Tool fly out menu.
And then I'll drag from here down to here like so.
And because my Smart Guides are turned on,
everything is snapping into place.
And then I'll go ahead and select the Rectangle Tool,
and I will draw a rectangle right here.
And it's going to come in with no fills,
so I'll go ahead and click on its fill swatch
and I will choose that dark shade of blue once again.
And now I'll draw another rectangle here
and another one down here in the bottom right corner.
All right, now I'll switch back to my Black Arrow Tool,
which of course I can get by pressing the V key.
I'll go ahead and marquee all of those shapes,
partially marquee them,
without running into the snowman that is.
And now I'll switch back to my Shape Builder Tool again
and I want you to see that this line right there
serves as a definition.
So I could click right there to divide that shape out
and click again right there to divide it.
And now I'll click at this location
and this one right here, and that's it.
All right, so now I'm going to press the V key
to switch back to my Black Arrow Tool.
And notice this shape right there
that kind of goes in the background?
I'm going to marquee these two shapes.
So the forward part of that A, and that bit of A
in the background.
And then I'm going to shift click on the foreground A
to deselect it, and I'm going to right-click on this object,
choose Arrange and choose Bring to Front
so that we can see it.
And it ends up looking like this,
which is not something we need.
So I'm just going to press the backspace key,
or the delete key on the Mac to get rid of it,
and then I'll just go ahead and click and shift click
on these two halves of the inner portion of the A.
And I'll change the color from light blue
back to the dark blue,
and I want you to see something.
Notice how we've got some bad edges?
Right there, we've got these minor joints
that are not aligning with each other.
It's worse right here, but it's bad up here too,
in the upper right corner.
To get rid of those, just go ahead and zoom out
a little bit, marquee all those shapes
that make up the A again, at least partially marquee them.
And then go up to the Stroke option
here in the control panel and change the corner setting
to Round Join.
And that will go ahead and get rid of those miters,
as we're seeing right here.
And now if I click off the shapes,
you can see that everything aligns nicely.
All right, now I'm going to press ctrl + 0,
or cmd + 0 on the Mac to zoom back out.
All right, now let's finish things off
by making this clover.
I'll go ahead and click on one of the green circles
and shift click on the other two with my Black Arrow Tool.
And then once again, I'll grab the Shape Builder Tool.
And you could just drag all over these circles
if you want to.
But i's possible you might miss an element
like that thing right there.
So the better way to work,
I'll go ahead and undo that change,
is to press and hold the shift key.
At which point, instead of dragging a freeform line,
you'll draw a rectangular marquee instead.
At which point, you can go ahead and partially marquee
all three of those shapes.
And then when you release, notice that the interior
gets filled as well.
Now that trick also works when subtracting shapes.
So what I'm going to do is press the ctrl key
or the cmd key and the Mac in order to get my
Black Arrow Tool on a fly.
I'll go ahead and partially marquee
these sort of beige shapes down here.
And I'll press the alt key, or the opt key on the Mac,
so I see my subtract cursor.
And then I'll add the shift key so I can marquee
these shapes instead.
And then I'll go ahead and shift alt
or shift opt drag over on this side as well,
so that we're left with just that stem.
And then I'm going to press the ctrl key,
or the cmd key on a Mac, to get my Black Arrow Tool,
along with the shift key.
So you want to ctrl + shift + click
on the green portion of the clover.
That's a cmd + shift + click on the Mac,
and then just go ahead and press the shift key
and marquee around though shapes like so
in order to join them all together.
And now I'll go ahead and press the V key
in order to switch to my Black Arrow Tool,
and I'll click off the shape to deselect it.
And that's how you divide shape intersections
just by clicking on them,
as well as draw rectangular marquees
by pressing the shift key.