If I'm working on this later and I want to then move these shapes around it is one single shape and I cannot do any real editing on this. If I put these two objects together and I simply click on the unite or the add or combine it creates one single shape. Over the years Illustrator has switched back and forth between whether or not it becomes an expanded shape or not an expanded shape which tells you nothing because you don't know what an expanded shape actually is. Why do they put it there, why is ghosted out? What are you doing wrong? Well here is what happens. Now when I click on this and I combine any one of these modes here this little expand button right here, it never seems to become active. These get a little bit obscure here, but for the main part we're gonna go through all of our different shape modes. I've got my outline of them, and then I've got minus back. I've got my crop which is very much as going in and doing the unite there as well.
I've got my divide, I've got my trim, I've got my merge which is the same thing as this. At the bottom are different Pathfinder modes here, we have divide, and what divide will do is divide will break it apart so that we can break it into multiple shapes without losing anything from those resulting shapes. Even more so that's necessary is when we get into multiple shapes or breaking objects into multiple shapes everything that we do so far is going to result in one solid shape. It doesn't create a white container in there. This actually creates a clear area, so if you put it over some place else you can actually see through this object right there through the middle. The donut tool because what happens when you put two objects together, it cuts out a hole in the middle of those two objects, you put two circles on top of each other, and the resulting object is the donut. So this is the resulting overlap or the intersection of the two of them wherever they are they overlap and that's what you get. Sorry, that's not the donut tool, you'll see why. Third one is going to be what I call the donut tool or the intersect, and what that does is that wherever those objects cross over this is what's gonna be left.
Whatever's in front, whatever's on top goes away and the resulting shape is what's left. Next one here in the Pathfinder tool is gonna be minus front. I'm doing Command Z in between here so I don't have to keep redrawing these shapes. This case the darker box on the lighter blue box, I click the add or the unite, it's going to put them all together darker boxes on top, those are the attributes you get. The way this works whatever object is in front of the other object that is the one that is gonna get all the attributes inherited. Select the objects, and in the Pathfinder tool we're gonna walk through these pretty basically, unite or add, put them all together, you click and it literally creates one solid shape out of the two of them. Two objects here, two or more objects, you're going to need two or more objects when you're using the Pathfinder because they are going to allow you to add, subtract, multiply, divide, spindle, fold, mutilate, whip, prob down, shape, or moisturize, we can do it all with the Pathfinder tool. And we're gonna cover what changes and what goes South when we are doing the Pathfinder. Once you introduce strokes with the containers too when you use the Pathfinder a lot of things chan. I'm gonna start with just a very simple container and when I'm doing these I'm only doing these objects with fills. So a couple of things that I wanna show you right off the bat here on how we're going to use the Pathfinder tool and what certain objects or the way things can work. So that partial list that we got and then my list of all these things we're gonna start banging these infographics out like you cannot believe, left, right, and center.
So what I've done so far I've touched on just a few things with the Pathfinder tool, but there's so many things that we're gonna use the Pathfinder tool for and these are it. So Pathfinder tool, under your Window menu right there, your Pathfinder tool, absolutely necessary when we're doing a lot of these shapes because again, as we're going through and doing this we're not really doing drawing or illustration, we're literally doing construction. The Pathfinder Tool and Adobe Illustrator
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