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- All right, so far, we've seen how to add

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and subtract shapes using
the Shape Builder Tool.

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In this movie, I'll show
you how to divide shapes

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into pieces, and I'll also show you

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how you can marquee shapes
by pressing the shift key.

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All right, I'll go ahead and
switch over to this version

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of the document, and
notice that I switch back

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to the Black Arrow Tool up
here at the top of the toolbox.

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At which point, I'm going
to marquee the three shapes

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that are going to make up our A.

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So we have two triangles drawn,

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once again using the Polygon Tool,

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and then this rectangle.

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All right, now I'll go ahead and select

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the Shape Builder Tool.

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And notice that in addition to dragging,

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and you could do freeform
drags these days,

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you can also just click with the tool.

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So I'm going to press ctrl
+ z or cmd + z on the Mac

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to undo that change,

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and I'm just going to
click in this intersection

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right there.

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And that's going to divide the shapes

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into a bunch of pieces.

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And let me show you what that looks like.

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I'll go ahead and switch
back to my Black Arrow Tool,

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and I'll click off the
shapes to deselect them.

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And I'll start moving these
guys out here like so.

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And so you can see that
everything is broken apart,

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and I've even managed to cut a hole

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in the rearmost triangle, all right?

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So I'm going to go ahead
and undo those moves,

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and then with this path
right there selected,

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I'm going to shift click on this one

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and just press the backspace
key, or the delete key

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on the Mac to get rid of them.

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All right, now I'll go ahead
and marquee these shapes

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once again, and then I'll switch back

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to my Shape Builder Tool,

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and then I'll just go ahead and drag

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across that bar there so
that I'm connecting the bar

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to the big upside down
V in order to make an A.

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And then I'll just go ahead
and drag across this area

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to unite it as well,
and then I'll subtract

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each of these shapes here,

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not by alt of opt dragging, but
rather just buy alt clicking

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or opt clicking on the Mac.

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And we end up with this letter A.

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All right, now what's great about this

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is we can now use it to add
some depth to the letters.

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So in other words, we're going to give it

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some vertical sides by pressing the V key

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to switch back to the Black Arrow Tool.

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And then I'll just drag
this top point down

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while pressing the shift key

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until I move it down about this far.

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And then I'll press the alt
key or the opt key on the Mac

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and release in order
to create a duplicate.

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All right, now I'm just going to go ahead

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and right click on this
shape, choose Arrange

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and choose Send to Back

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so that it's in the
back of the original A,

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and I'll change it's color by
clicking on the first swatch

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up here in the control panel

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and selecting this dark blue,

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which is R=46 G=49 B=146.

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It looks like that.

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All right, now I want to add some edges

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by first selecting the Line Segment Tool

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from the Line Tool fly out menu.

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And then I'll drag from
here down to here like so.

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And because my Smart Guides are turned on,

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everything is snapping into place.

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And then I'll go ahead and
select the Rectangle Tool,

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and I will draw a rectangle right here.

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And it's going to come in with no fills,

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so I'll go ahead and
click on its fill swatch

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and I will choose that dark
shade of blue once again.

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And now I'll draw another rectangle here

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and another one down here
in the bottom right corner.

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All right, now I'll switch
back to my Black Arrow Tool,

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which of course I can get
by pressing the V key.

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I'll go ahead and marquee
all of those shapes,

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partially marquee them,

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without running into the snowman that is.

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And now I'll switch back to
my Shape Builder Tool again

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and I want you to see
that this line right there

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serves as a definition.

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So I could click right there
to divide that shape out

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and click again right there to divide it.

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And now I'll click at this location

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and this one right here, and that's it.

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All right, so now I'm
going to press the V key

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to switch back to my Black Arrow Tool.

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And notice this shape right there

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that kind of goes in the background?

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I'm going to marquee these two shapes.

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So the forward part of
that A, and that bit of A

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in the background.

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And then I'm going to shift
click on the foreground A

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to deselect it, and I'm going
to right-click on this object,

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choose Arrange and choose Bring to Front

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so that we can see it.

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And it ends up looking like this,

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which is not something we need.

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So I'm just going to
press the backspace key,

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or the delete key on the
Mac to get rid of it,

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and then I'll just go ahead
and click and shift click

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on these two halves of the
inner portion of the A.

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And I'll change the color from light blue

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back to the dark blue,

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and I want you to see something.

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Notice how we've got some bad edges?

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Right there, we've got these minor joints

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that are not aligning with each other.

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It's worse right here,
but it's bad up here too,

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in the upper right corner.

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To get rid of those, just
go ahead and zoom out

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a little bit, marquee all those shapes

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that make up the A again, at
least partially marquee them.

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And then go up to the Stroke option

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here in the control panel
and change the corner setting

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to Round Join.

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And that will go ahead and
get rid of those miters,

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as we're seeing right here.

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And now if I click off the shapes,

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you can see that everything aligns nicely.

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All right, now I'm
going to press ctrl + 0,

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or cmd + 0 on the Mac to zoom back out.

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All right, now let's finish things off

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by making this clover.

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I'll go ahead and click on
one of the green circles

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and shift click on the other
two with my Black Arrow Tool.

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And then once again, I'll
grab the Shape Builder Tool.

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And you could just drag
all over these circles

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if you want to.

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But i's possible you might miss an element

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like that thing right there.

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So the better way to work,

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I'll go ahead and undo that change,

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is to press and hold the shift key.

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At which point, instead of
dragging a freeform line,

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you'll draw a rectangular marquee instead.

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At which point, you can go
ahead and partially marquee

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all three of those shapes.

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And then when you release,
notice that the interior

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gets filled as well.

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Now that trick also works
when subtracting shapes.

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So what I'm going to do
is press the ctrl key

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or the cmd key and the
Mac in order to get my

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Black Arrow Tool on a fly.

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I'll go ahead and partially marquee

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these sort of beige shapes down here.

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And I'll press the alt key,
or the opt key on the Mac,

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so I see my subtract cursor.

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And then I'll add the
shift key so I can marquee

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these shapes instead.

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And then I'll go ahead and shift alt

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or shift opt drag over
on this side as well,

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so that we're left with just that stem.

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And then I'm going to press the ctrl key,

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or the cmd key on a Mac,
to get my Black Arrow Tool,

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along with the shift key.

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So you want to ctrl + shift + click

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on the green portion of the clover.

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That's a cmd + shift + click on the Mac,

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and then just go ahead
and press the shift key

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and marquee around though shapes like so

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in order to join them all together.

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And now I'll go ahead and press the V key

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in order to switch to my Black Arrow Tool,

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and I'll click off the
shape to deselect it.

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And that's how you divide
shape intersections

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just by clicking on them,

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as well as draw rectangular marquees

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by pressing the shift key.