Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

4 Editing and Combining Shapes and Paths

Soon after you begin creating simple paths and shapes, you will most likely want to use them to create more complex artwork. In this lesson, you’ll explore how to both edit and combine shapes and paths.

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Cut with the Scissors tool

• Join paths

• Work with the Knife tool

• Outline strokes

• Work with the Eraser tool

• Create a compound path

• Work with the Shape Builder tool

• Work with Pathfinder commands to create shapes

• Work with the Reshape tool

• Edit strokes with the Width tool.

This lesson will take about 45 minutes to complete. Please ...