This class will give students a direct choice of tool clipping path commands and how to use the scissors tool. Select [ Direct Selection Tool ] and click once on the anchor point you want to disconnect. If you want to break the path at the non-anchor point, use the Scissors tool. Select the scissors tool in the toolbox, shortcut C. At this point, the path has been disconnected. Use the [ Direct Selection Tool ] to drag the broken path.
The operation is very simple. Have you learned it? I hope this article can help everyone! Open Adobe Illustrator CS5. Having said that, if you only want one shape in a pile of shapes to be cut, or if you only want some but not all shapes to be affected, just select the shapes you want to cut before dragging the knife across, leaving the other shapes deselected.
This will only cut the selected shapes - all others will remain unaffected. The Scissors Tool is a slightly different kettle of fish. This tool will only work on a single shape at a time, and it will not enclose paths after a cut has been made. This will create an anchor point or select an existing anchor point if clicked on.
Then click on the other side of the shape where you want the other end of the cut to be. You now have two unenclosed shapes - the open edges of the shapes have no strokes, as there is no path to stroke along these edges. Like the Knife, it will cut though whatever and however many shapes it's dragged over as long as they're unlocked.
Also like the Knife, after a cut has been made it'll enclose the paths of the shapes that it's sliced through. Thirdly, and yet again like the knife, if you only want to erase parts of one or more of the shapes in a group, just select the shapes you want to cut and the rest will remain unaffected. Where the Eraser tool differs from the Knife is that any part of the shape that you drag over will completely disappear.
The Eraser Tool behaves like a brush insofar as it has a defined size, and where the periphery of the brush circle is will be where the shapes that have been affected will be enclosed. If there was a stroke around the original shape, the stroke will continue around the areas that've been created either side of the erased line. To use the tool, select the Eraser Tool from the Tool Bar. Now with the shape either selected or not, drag the Eraser across it. You can also alter the size and shape or at least the roundness of the Eraser Tool by double-clicking on the tool button in the Tool Bar.
A settings window will open, allowing you to change the roundness, angle and size of the Eraser brush head, in the same way that you can change the settings on a brush.
Another way to cut or areas of a shape is to use the Crop Tool, which can be found in the Pathfinder Palette. This works by using a shape placed over another object to determine which part of the object to keep and which part to delete.
Create a new object of any shape over your existing shape. This will delete both the masking object as well as everything that was selected outside it. Note that any paths that were opened up by this process have been automatically closed, leaving a stroke in place. Unlike any of the tools mentioned above, the Clipping Mask Tool is the only one that works non-destructively.
To mask a shape or collection of shapes, follow the same procedure as with the Crop Tool. This will create a very similar effect as the Crop Tool, although this time nothing is deleted. Also, no new stroke has been created along the new edges. Finally, there's the issue of how to cut one shape out of another. This is very simple and achieved using the Pathfinder Tool.
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