Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

29. Repeat for the bottom inside edge. Referring to Figure 6-39,

delete the extraneous points to clean up the inside edge as well.

Save your work—you’ll be returning to the robot for the fi nal ex-

ercise. But as you’ve learned over the course of this exercise, the

Divide command, when put to work with its companion Unite,

gives you quite a bit of control of the shapes you can create from a

whole host of overlapping primitives. My best pathfi nder advice:

When in doubt, divide!

Crop, Exclude, and Intersect

In this, the last of our ghost robot exercises, I’ll walk you through

the fi nal, most advanced pathfi nder operations—crop, exclude, and

intersect. In this exercise, we’ll focus entirely on the robot’s body,

and fi nish with some transparency effects to give our robot friend

an appropriate other-worldliness.

1. Open the last of the ghost artwork. If you still have

the fi le open from the last exercise, you’re ready to go.

If not, open the fi le you saved at the end of the last

exercise, or navigate your way to the Lesson 06 subfolder, in-

side the Lesson Files-AIcs5 1on1 folder, and open Final robot.ai.

2. Convert the grill lines to paths. As with the other pathfi nder

operations, the Crop operation requires fi lled closed paths. With

the black arrow tool, select a grill line, as shown in Figure 6-40.

(They are grouped, so selecting one selects all.) Choose Object→

Path→Outline ...