You’ll see the nice little gray box in the image below. To view the Pathfinder Panel, go to Window > Pathfinder. Not only can you combine shapes, but you have 10 different options for combining them. Guess what? There’s actually a way to combine your shapes into one object, giving you a much cleaner and simplified solution.
But other times, for instance, when you’re trying to add an outline to your object, having multiple shapes stacked on top of one another causes problems. And you’re also probably familiar with the situation where you start stacking different shapes on top of each other to create a custom shape. …Or you can merge simply by clicking and dragging across the shape.If you’ve used Adobe Illustrator before, you’re no stranger to the five available shapes you can use to create artwork.
You can now subtract all the shapes you don’t want by ALT+clicking on them… Time to get busy with the Shape Builder Tool!Īctivate it by hitting SHIFT+M or by clicking on the relative icon in the tool bar: Anyone who’s ever used the tools in the pathfinder palette will know that the chances of making it do what you want it to do first time are around 12369864983/1. If you wanted to merge/intersect these shapes you’d usually fire up the pathfinder palette. Next, select all of the shapes you intend to use to generate the new one. It doesn’t matter how many elements you want to use to create your new shapes, or their position: the shape builder works independently of these variables. Start by creating a series of overlapping shapes.
It’s really great for punching areas out of white layers, and selecting spot gloss areas. In fact, we’re on our forth one, having worn the previous three out. We use the Shape Builder Tool a whole lot at Diginate. First up is the Shape Builder Tool, a pathfinder alternative which gives you much more control during the creation of vector shapes. Welcome to our new Adobe clinic! This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials about some of the lesser-known features of Illustrator and Photoshop.
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