Do Now: Take out your notebook and a pen. Open Pathfinder.ai on your desktop. Save as yourname_pdx_pathfinder.ai

Homework: Answer the following:1.In your own words, define “compound path”2.What is the advantage to using “live” shapes?3.Explain the difference between the shapes mode and pathfinders in the pathfinder palette

Aim: How do I use the pathfinder palette to create compound shapes?

Ms. EdelmanTechnology Wednesday 5.22.13

What is a Compound Path?

Multiple shapes that are combined to create new objects with holes Shortcut: CTRL 8

Pathfinder Panel

Offers options to create compound shapes or new paths.

Pathfinder PanelGo to ‘WINDOW’ in the Menu Bar, scroll down to ‘Pathfinder’.

Pathfinder Panel: Shapes Modes

Allows you to create compound shapes: a LIVE combination of shapes using Add, Subtract, Intersect, and Exclude

Working in real time –compound shapes remain editable when click with ALT.

Pathfinder Panel: LIVE

Pathfinder PanelPathfinder Panel: EXPAND

Turns the compound shapes into an ordinary path.

Pathfinder Panel: PATHFINDER MODES

Create compound paths that consist of one or more paths that have been combined to behave as a grouped unit.

Pathfinder Panel: PATHFINDER MODES

Commands are permanent, “destructive” - shapes cannot be returned to their original editable state (except for Undo). Divide, Trim, Merge, Crop, Outline, Minus Back

Shape Modes vs. Pathfinder

Shape Modes allow you to add, subtract, intersect and exclude objects.

Pathfinders allow you to divide trim, merge, crop, outline, and subtract objects.

Pathfinder Exercise

After completing the pathfinder exercises, create the following shapes on the 2nd page