today have four awesome Illustrated tips
for using a pathfinder window so tune in
and learn four things about the
illustrator Pathfinder function as
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what is that people welcome back to
Satori graphics the home of graphic
design content right here on YouTube a
few months back on my channel I actually
made a comprehensive guide for the
Pathfinder function but that was just
the basic functions of each of the
options in the Pathfinder window today
I'm gonna show you four advanced tips or
tricks for the Pathfinder so let's jump
right into the video tutorial the first
advanced tip is really helpful and to
demonstrate up some text and a surfer in
Illustrator first let's locate the
Pathfinder and it's actually a great
idea to drag and pull it onto the
artboard so you can locate all of the
options and functions with ease if I
want to punch this text into the circle
you probably think that you need to use
the minus for an option however it
doesn't work and that's because the text
is still a text and it's not actually a
vector shape or vector path if your next
thought would be to outline the text
stop right there because there is
actually no need to do that and there is
a better way to do things
instead you can go over to the minus
front option but before you do hold down
the alt option key and then click the
operation illustrator will cut the tags
into the shape but you can actually
still edit the text which is totally
awesome this is because you've actually
converted things into a compound shape
this tip doesn't just work with the
minus for an option you can choose if
any of the top row in the Pathfinder
window just simply hold down the alt
option key and then click to use a
compound shape
so for example you can use the intersect
operation and the text will be hidden
according to the shape which could be
very handy for certain designs
the second tip in today's Pathfinder
tutorial is a tip for helping with
non-destructive workflow if I want to
cut out a shape into another one often
we use the minus for an operation for
something like that this will cut the
shape out but it also would discard
everything else in the collection
instead it's always a good idea to use a
divide option in the Pathfinder window
and then in group the shapes because
they will be grouped once you use a
divide function you now have more
choices and you can methodically remove
or edit parts of the design or even hide
certain areas with command or control 3
on your keyboard also each individual
shape now has its own layer in the
layers window which is super useful and
helpful
so sometimes when working in Illustrator
the shape might have too many anchor
points and you always want to limit the
amount of anchor points as much as
possible whilst keeping the shape or the
design the same in the Pathfinder window
you can actually come into the fly down
menu and head it into the Pathfinder
options there is a setting where you can
remove redundant points however this
only works once you've used a merge
function for example as you can see the
redundant points have actually been
removed for my shape if I go back and
then I turn off the setting you will see
this operation doesn't work as it
previously did so make sure to check the
redundant points option
the fourth and the final tip today is an
advanced technique that will really save
you time in your workflow so let's punch
a hole through it using the minus front
option so once that's been done I could
actually go into the Pathfinder window
and repeat the last operation on this
new selection of shapes but the quicker
way for doing things would be just a
press command or control 4 on your
keyboard as this is the shortcut to
repeat the last operation when using the
Pathfinder window so remember if you
want to keep progressing as a graphic
designer
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