Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book 2024 Release

4 Editing and Combining 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.

• Work with the Eraser tool.

• Create a compound path.

• Outline strokes.

• Work with the Shape Builder tool.

• Use Pathfinder effects to create shapes.

• Work with the Reshape tool.

• Edit strokes with the Width tool.

• Use Intertwine.

This lesson will take about 45 minutes to complete. To get the lesson files used in this lesson, download them from the web page for this book at peachpit.com/IllustratorCIB2024. For more information, see “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition ...