today I have a comprehensive guide so using the Pathfinder tool in Adobe
Illustrator perfect for your graphic design projects also move kindly sent me
a microphone to test and to show you guys in today's video
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me and the contrast between the audio when using the microphone I want to
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the Pathfinder tours an awesome awesome tool in Adobe Illustrator and as many
uses and to become an advanced design illustrator you really do need to use
often there is also a tool known as the shape builder tool which can do quite a
few things a pathfinder cannot we will however look at that to in depth in a
different video today I'm gonna take you through the various Pathfinder tool
functions how to use it and when to use it
first we to locate the Pathfinder tool and you can find it here in the toolbar
or you can always go up to window and find it there there's also a keyboard
shortcut I'm gonna make a circle with your lips tool the shortcut be an L on
your keyboard as well as make a rectangle the rectangle tool the
shortcut for the LM
these two shapes will help me demonstrate the first functions of the
Pathfinder tool you will see that throughout this Pathfinder guide just
how awesome this tool is and why it's so essential to use as a graphic designer
for the first function you simply cut out a square into this circle here with
the -4 an option in the Pathfinder window this is a simple and
straightforward technique and whatever the bottom shape or object is will be
left with a shape cut into it so as you can see here the square is actually cut
down into the middle as a vector hole into the circle a few things are taken
to account however if you're gonna use a mixture of shapes make sure that you
unite them all like so and then cut them into the object or shape also look what
happens when we try to cut typography into the circle the desired effect isn't
achieved so we need to outline type first to a vector shape and then we can
use it to cut into the circle with the Pathfinder tool
so we've looked at the minus front function but now we're going to explore
the intersect function of the Pathfinder tool if you have a Ville up in shapes
this function is going to leave the remaining middle sections of the
intersection of the shapes this can allow you to make custom shapes very
quickly and very easily as opposed to draw them yourself in Illustrator just
very briefly the united function simply joins multiple shapes together into one
vector shape thus the most straightforward function of the
Pathfinder tool the exclude function will allow you to cut out shapes with
other shapes the difference here is that you can ungroup the selection afterwards
and then edit the selection on your design from here on out
however if you have a vector path that is not a shape you have an expected
results to get around this simply outline the stroke so you're left with a
better shape and then go ahead and use this function as we did before with
practice you really will be able to make all kinds of shapes they're going to
help with things that local designing for example
the divide function in the Pathfinder will cut out all of the shapes are you
select along the vector paths you can then in group the selection and remove
certain parts you don't want anymore for your design
the trim option in the Pathfinder is another way to cut out shapes into other
shapes using one as a template it would always cut out the shape that is above
the other one to cut into the lower shape
so if I bring this new shape to the front you will see that it cuts into the
one beneath their life as many previous functions you need to ungroup the
selection afterwards the merge function is pretty self-explanatory
so we don't need to look at that however the next function in the path wanders
really really cool if you have overlap in areas it will cut and crop the inner
portion of your shapes like with the square in the middle here
however look what happens when we take a complex shape such as my logo even
though the local type is one solid shape when I use the crop tool it leaves a
small portion of the type
to get around this we're going to need to apply a compound path to the logo
type now you can see that the circle crops away the type it is almost like a
layer mask of sort so you want to think of it in that way the outline function
the Pathfinder would turn all of the shapes and object selected into a stroke
you can then go in and edit those strokes by changing the weight and even
the stroke style I actually don't use this function very often there are
various uses for it however but I simply didn't encounter them my workflow very
often lastly we have the minus back function again for complex shapes you
will need to make a compound path of the shape first
this Pathfinder function will use shapes at the back to cut into the shape at the
front as you can see here if I send the type to the back you can see a different
outcome with this function
so before I actually show you guys the moving microphone that they've sent me
today this is how the audio sounds using the microphone attached to my DSLR and
this is how it sounds when I unhook the microphone from my DSLR camera so as you
can probably hear and tell there's quite a stark contrast between the two
different audios whilst using their microphone attached my DSLR movie who
kindly sent me a microphone to show you guys and for me to use on my videos from
here on out you can check out their wide range of camera equipment via the link
in description below this mic doesn't require a battery and it fastens onto a
DSLR camera very easily also you can connect it to a smart phone device which
is really really cool and also as you can see there's a professional three
wind protector which is really awesome for outdoor use nothing is worse than
that noise of wind on a video it also comes with a sleek bag to carry it in or
simply to keep it neatly tucked away somewhere so if you want to connect the
mic to your smartphone this is a plug that you need and each side is labeled
with a corresponding connection
he was the lead that attaches to the DSR camera I took a pic with my friend this
is how it set up I actually found this book inside the box after I served the
microphone with the camera so I didn't really need to use instructions but as
you can see it does illustrate everything simply and straightforward so
you should have no worries for connecting this mic to your smartphone
or to a camera so there was a comprehensive guide to using the
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