Posts Tagged ‘Create Compound Paths’

Creating a Brushed Metal Effect with Embossed Text

Using the Pathfinder Palette in Illustrator

This tutorial will walk you through the main functions of the pathfinder palette. It can be a little confusing at first but with a little practice you will find that you use it all the time to combine, cut out, and divide any type of shape you can create. While this tutorial will get you started, the key to mastering this tool is practice.

Creating Compound Paths with Photoshop

Most people think of Illustrator as the program for creating scalable and complex vector graphics. While Illustrator is generally a better vector program photoshop handles vector graphics and has advantages of its own! In this tutorial you will see how to combine basic shapes into complex Compound Shapes without using the a pathfinder like palette found in Illustrator.