How to Join, Cut, Split, Crop (and More) an Object/ Path/ Shape in Adobe Illustrator.

In this tutorial I will show you how you can:
Cut, split, weld, join, merge, seperate, combine, crop, separate (and much more) with adobe Illustrator's Pathfinders and Shape Modes.

These are all must know features for any Illustrator user! They have helped me out so many times in the past, helping me solve my design problems.

I used Adobe Illustrator CS6 in this video, but it will also work in most other versions such as Adobe Illustrator CC (creative cloud).

Thanks for watching :)

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO0G6c...

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Here is a link to neater reference image: http://i.imagehost.org/0291/PathFinde...

How do I join a shape/ path/ object?

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everyone has a gun I'm going to teach
you to how to use shit months and
pathfinders really useful tools and
shows on right . make sure first of all
that you're popular windows open so just
go to window and then pass under your
ship control that name never do such
work with my life
anyway so what we want to do is go to
shape to this is for demonstration will
show you what the day going to follow
you can do this
I'm shit you'll press em on the keyboard
and we'll go to the shape you're right
make sure there's a fill and Stroke to
demonstrate it better
so we're going to do is make a square
here another one just here a bit like
the diagrams actually makes all these e
so the first one were going to talk
about is your night which is this one
here as you can see by the icon looks
like to the two squares welded together
it's so it's a bit for corel turn their
book anyway so we're going to do is the
selection tool or press be on the
keyboard and we're going to click unite
and as you can see what is done is doing
everything up and get rid of what was
here made it all one path
this is probably the one I use the most
along with this one
no this one which we'll get to in a
minute and it's very very handy this
name as we go . news 8
get in here right
so first my keyboard shortcuts
professor right so we'll go on the
square
yeah
let's hit I on our keyboard and and it's
like this one
do the same for this one and that has
brought up the eyedropper tool
thanks handy shortcut so the next one
will do is - front which is this one
here as you can probably guess gets rid
of the front will do that so select
these two ships at it
- front as you can see you folks where
it's gone
even you you were just this path here
very handy for somethings so this one
I mean this point it's really just a
little bit
cool this one is - want and right along
using the shortcut to shoot to do is be
there for you to use their enter the
next one would be
I remember the name this one to
intersect and that's what this one does
is and see how it showed up here when
you go over this one
i was asked where i should apply this
for my finger there as a square here
with this square will be the only thing
left i think that's what does let's
check out
yes that has as you can tell by the
diagram what we just did as and I'm just
weapons with the intersect of two ships
will only that
here is the intersect where the two
ships join and leaves you with it when
you get a picture
so this one into it
yeah I can't spell as well of course not
and it has intersect or do know is the
last one shipment which is exclude to do
that
hmm
the signal and I get the properties from
that right
what this one does is takes away the
intersect and leaves you with these
stress wondering where I am
or does it gets rid of the intersect is
you this is yes yes it does
as you can see it has all the apartments
two separate ships where they intersect
what's so then this morning
you don't like how my arms are different
sizes but I don't have a look at anyway
so that's where shape modes all very
handy as you can see right so what next
we're going to pathfinders this is all
to do with splitting patterns and you
know it's also learning right
right the first one is divided this one
here
what do i do the ship to do our usual
thing probably just change up the
default but i'm not going to anyway so
divided
it's like these single does as you can
see what was done to split up everything
so i can pull apart and everything will
be left 14 Italy right to put it right
next one
I'm just go ahead and do this makes
sense
so of course where's we're going to do
is text was just trim
it's kind of like debate but with a
difference
so you can see change everything the
paths is taken and just cut with the
ship of this was so this is on top
I would have done going to cook you so
you get the idea what they are there
i double-click and I get out the group
and it's all just give us a stroke so
you can see what it does
so I was called
room type definite train and um this one
the next one is merge but i remember
correctly it's a wee bit like you night
I'm not sure which are selectable this
to change it back again I right applause
and to do merge
yes yeah it's like tonight but as you
can see it's compressed ever two paths
so that's my ranch but i shall give it a
stroke so you can see what happens
emerge . there was next is crop which is
the spine here and right to do is shift
or extend the artboard must be to bring
up a selection - that's a little bit
more space to work with
going to do this . what
so the merge and the next one will be
crop
like it going to do when I am crop crop
let's knock this crap right so crop is
going to convert that into parts of the
stroke was done is something we bit
strange
so it's taking away the image from paint
goes up with the intersect and part of
the image in front and cut up that is
what crop those to be honest I don't
think I've ever needed to use crop but
i'll give it struck second see what
happens
so you