This option is used for deleting areas of an illustration by making adjustments to the stacking order. Minus Back: The frontmost object has all the objects behind it removed.

The tool is handy for deleting areas of illustrations by stacking the order in which they appear. Subtract: The frontmost object from your shapes is removed from the backmost object.However, selecting an odd number of objects will make the overlap filled.

If you overlap an even number of objects, the overlap becomes transparent.

Exclude: Non-overlapping areas of objects can be traced, and it also makes all the overlapping areas transparent.

Here is an example of two objects before and after being intersected.

Intersect: The Intersect tool lets you trace the outline of a region in your illustration, even if other objects overlap it.

Add: This option lets you accurately trace the outline of all objects and treats them as a singular merged the object.

As you can see there is already a scallop outline on the circle we made. (You can experiment with different numbers in the stroke/gap for larger or smaller scallops.) Always making sure dash is set to 0pt. For this example I am using 0pt for dash and 14pt for gap. Next we want to make sure DASHED LINE is selected and align to corners selected. On the stroke window we will make the stroke 15pt, the cap round and corner round and align stroke to center. Make sure you have Show Options selected to see all the options available. Using the stroke panel which you can find under Window > Stroke You can also choose white fill and black outline in your color sections on the left side.

With the circle you just made making sure it is selected click on your keyboard D this will give you a white fill and black outline. To begin let’s make a perfectly round circle 200px with the ellipse tool. We will be using some basic steps with the Stroke and Path tools along side the Ellipse tool. It’s okay – I love all of these companies/products anyway, and you will too! –> read my full disclosure hereįor this tutorial I am using Adobe Illustrator 2020 V 24.3

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