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Project 2: Pin

Project 2: Pin - Illustrator Tutorial

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Project 2: Pin

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Project number two is the pin and currently it doesn't really look like a pin but that's the result that we need to achieve that we see here on the bottom left. So first we have to subtract this blue shape from the red shape behind it so let's select both of these together and then we can either use the pathfinder minus front which would create this result or we can use the shape builder which you can access with shift m from the keyboard or you can click on this icon here and then just make sure you hold down the alt or option key and click on that circle in the middle. So this is what we get and it doesn't really matter which way you get to this result but now we can just double check in our layers panel that the selected object that we currently have selected is a compound path. I just make a bit more space here we can see it says compound path which means it's a single object but it's obviously made-up of two shapes the one on the outside and the one on the inside. Now the next…

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