Each week you will need to respond to two questions posted. Your response should be a minimum of 300 words for both questions. You should also include at least one response to your fellow students. The responses are a requirement for participation part of your grade.
Question 01 –
Describe how to use the divide tool. What happens to the overlapping area when you divide?
Question 02 –
What choices can you make when using to the Blend Mode options?
Q1: The divided tool cuts off the shape that is overlapping another and becomes its own independent shape. To divide an overlapping area, you go to Window>Pathfinder. The Pathfinder box will open a selection of different Shape Modes to choose from and Pathfinders. The divide tool is the first one on the second row. When you overlap both shapes, the shape in the middle becomes its own independent shape. This tool is very helpful to create many designs and patterns. It is good to use this tool with shapes or typography. Using this method was how I created a design for a logo of my own.
Q2: There are a lot of choices you can make when using the Blend mode option. Blending lets you combine shapes and colors between two or more objects to create a new object.
You can multiply, color burn, lighten, overlay, screen, and more. The blending mode specified in the options bar controls how pixels in the image are affected by a painting or editing tool. The base color is the original color in the image. The blend color is the color being applied with the painting or editing tool. The result color is the color resulting from the blend.
Q1: The divide tool divides any intersecting shapes into new shapes. In order to divide shapes, their paths must be overlapping. This cuts each intersection into a new shape with new anchor points. For example, if you have one horizontal rectangle perfectly centered to the artboard, and one vertical rectangle perfectly centered to the artboard, and they are both intersecting, dividing them with the pathfinder will create five new shapes. The shapes would be four ends of the cross, and the fifth would be the middle.
Q2: There are many choices you can make when using blend mode options. You can choose the spacing between the two objects you are blending, and the choices you have are smooth colors, specified steps, or specified distance. Choosing smooth color creates a solid gradient between the two objects. Specified steps are the same thing, but broken up into a certain number of pieces that you can choose. Specified distance is the same thing as specified steps, except it’s for the distance between the objects instead of the number of steps. You can also choose the orientation the blend takes over its path. You can choose to have it aligned to the page, or align to the path. Aligning it to the page keeps the original orientation of the shapes, and aligning it to the path rotates the objects to follow the path it’s on.
Hi Mike, I like how you gave an example with the rectangles describing how the divide tool creates a new shape. I really like that tool a lot. The choices for the blend more are limitless too. Well said!!
Hi Gloria
I like the way you answer the first question. The divided tool is an outstanding tool for assisting you in creating something new. Adding one shape to another in order to divide it. That’s extremely interesting. I had previously used the Pathfinder tool, but not the divide tool.
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The divide tool In Illustrator works by dividing shapes or lines where the lines intersect. The divide tool can be found under windows, pathfinder. The divide tool help creating desired shapes easier. The overlapping area that I divide using the divide tool can now be remove. deleted. The moment the shape is divided, that overlapping shape becomes its own independent shape. However, there are others things that can be done as well. It can also get send to back, reconnect back or intersect.
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Blending mode tool help us create multiple copies of the same shape in a variety of desired colors. The blending mode tool can be found by clicking on Object and then blend and blend options after desired shape is created. At this point we can choose spacing in between each object, colors, etc. Under spacing we have the option; smooth color, specified steps, specified distance or if we want the orientation to align to page or path.