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- In this movie, I'll
show you how to subtract

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and separate path outlines
using the shaper tool,

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and that will allow us to
draw a couple of transparent

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windows as well as color the roof

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and the chimney independently
from the rest of the house.

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And so, notice that my
shaper tool is still active,

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and that all paths are de-selected

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inside the document window,

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which means I can draw another rectangle,

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just by dragging like so.

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And for whatever reason
that ends up generating

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a square, I want it to
be shorter than that,

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so I'll go ahead and click
on the square to select it,

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my bounding box is turned
on, so I can just go ahead

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and drag this handle
downward a little bit,

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and I'll drag this one
upward and to the left.

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Alright now just to make
things more obvious,

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I'll change the fill color

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up here in the control panel

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to this arbitrary shade of purple.

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Alright now we need to
create a couple of panes,

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and so I'll draw a
horizontal line like this,

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across the entire width of the window,

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and that does end up giving
me an exactly horizontal line,

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which is what I want,

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and now I'll draw a vertical line down,

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and you do have to be careful,

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if you go off at a slight angle
you will get an angled line,

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not what I want, so I'll press ctrl-z,

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or command-z on a Mac,
to undo that change,

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and then I'll just go ahead
and drag this guy upward

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like so, and this time I do
get an exactly vertical line.

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Alright now I'll click
on the horizontal line

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to select it, it's a little high up,

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so I'll press the down
arrow key a few times

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to nudge it down.

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And then I'll shift click
on the vertical line,

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so that they're both selected,

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and now change the line
weight to 10 points,

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so the lines are nice and thick,

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and just to be sure
everything's exactly the way

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it should be, I'll
change the fill to none.

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Alright now we want to
create a copy of this window,

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and you can do that by shift
clicking inside the window,

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in order to select it,

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so keep in mind that
the shaper tool doubles

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as a selection tool, inside Illustrator,

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and then I'll go ahead
and drag these guys over

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to the right, and I want to make sure

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that this is an exactly horizontal drag,

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so I'll press and hold the shift key,

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in order to constrain the angle,

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and I want to duplicate the window,

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so I'll press the alt
key or the option key

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on a mac.

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And then I'll just go ahead

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and drop these shapes into place.

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Alright now I want to subtract

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the purple windows from the house,

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and so I'll click in an empty
portion of the document window

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to deselect the artwork,

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and then I'll draw a Z
in this area like so,

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but notice what happens is
I subtract just that one

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intersecting area, I don't
subtract the entire window.

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And so if I were to draw a big zig zag

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across the entire window like so,

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then I end up subtracting the panes

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from the window instead,

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which is in no way what I want,

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and so the idea is that the shaper tool

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is looking at the entire
composite artwork,

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and so what I need to do is
get the panes out of the way.

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And so I'll press ctrl
Z, or command Z on a Mac,

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a couple of times, to undo
those subtraction operations,

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and then I'll click on this
horizontal line and shift click

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on the vertical line to select it,

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and then I'll shift click
on each of these lines,

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to select them as well,

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and I'll go up to the edit menu
and choose the cut command,

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or you can just press ctrl
X or command X on a Mac.

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And that way, the panes
are no longer in the way.

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Now if I draw a Z inside
this purple window,

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I'll subtract the window from the house,

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now you want to keep that
zig zag inside the window,

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if you end up dragging
it out of the window,

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like so, then you'll fuse
those various shapes together.

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Obviously that's not what I want,

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so I'll press ctrl Z, command Z on a Mac,

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and I'll just draw a Z
inside this window as well.

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And now notice if I
click inside the house,

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I select the entire house, but
if I click inside the window,

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I deselect the house,

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and that's because the windows
are not filled with white,

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they are instead holes in the house,

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and so if i want to change the thickness

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of this window stroke,

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I need to click on it's outline.

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And now I'll shift click on
the other windows outline,

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and then with those two
rectangles selected,

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I'll change the line weight to six points,

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so it matches the other
lines in the artwork.

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And finally, I'll click off
the art work to select it,

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and then I'll go up to the edit menu,

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and choose paste in back,

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or I have that keyboard
shortcut of ctrl b,

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or command B on a Mac,

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and that goes ahead and
pastes the pane lines,

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in back of the house, as an
entirely separate object,

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because after all no part
of the house was selected.

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And that demonstrates that the windows

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are indeed holes as opposed to rectangles

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filled with white.

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Alright now I want to
change the color of the roof

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and chimney, and so I'll
click anywhere on the house

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to select the entire thing,

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and now I can switch to
that construction mode,

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either by clicking on
this down arrow widget,

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or just in case you want
another way to work,

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you can just double click
on either of the sub paths,

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and so if I were to double
click on the chimney,

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I'll select it independently
of the rest of the artwork,

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you can see we're in construction
mode by the way because

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the down arrow widget has
changed to an up arrow,

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and now I'll shift click on
the roof to select it as well,

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and now I'll change the
color of those two objects

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by clicking in the fill swatch,

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up here in the control panel,

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and changing it to this deep
shade of blue right here.

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Notice however that that
does not continue the stroke,

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so if I were to click off
the artwork to deselect it,

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and then control space bar click,

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or command space bar click on a Mac,

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in order to zoom in on my artwork,

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notice that I'm seeing
a sharp miter joint,

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here at the edge of the roof,

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but I'm seeing a round
joint, at the intersection

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of the roof and the house.

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And that's because, notice
if you were to double click

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on this stroke right here,

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in order to select it
independently of the rest

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of the artwork,

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and clicked on the word stroke
up here in the control panel,

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notice the cap is set to round,

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and by virtue of the fact
that we have one round cap

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running into another one,

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we have what looks to be a round joint.

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What I want to do however
is continue the stroke,

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along the bottom edge of the roof,

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and so I'll go ahead and click
off the artwork once again

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to deselect it,

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I'll press ctrl 0 or command 0 on a Mac

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in order to fit the artwork on screen,

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and then I'll double
click on the triangle,

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in order to select it independently

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inside the construction mode,

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and I'll shift click on the chimney,

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and I'll just go ahead and drag
both of these objects upward

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like so, and I went ahead
and pressed the shift key

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in order to constrain the angle

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of my drag to exactly vertical,

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and now notice we regain the stroke

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along the bottom edge of the roof,

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and now if I go ahead and drag
these paths back downwards,

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once again, while pressing the shift key,

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to constrain the angle of my drag,

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notice that the blue roof
and chimney are permanently

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selected from the green house,

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so that we have a six point
stroke, dividing the two.

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And now I'll just go ahead
and turn off the guides layer

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so that we can see the
childishly simple house

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all by itself.

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And that's how you subtract
and separate path outlines

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using the shaper tool, here
inside the newest version

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of Illustrator CC.