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 use the divide tool. What happens to the overlapping areas?
Question 02 –
What choices can you make when using the Blend Mode Options?
1. You can access the divide tool by simply going into window tab and clicking pathfinder. As you move your mouse downwards, you can see an icon which is labeled divide. Once you have selected the item you would like to be divided, you click the divide icon. If they were to overlap, you can cut the shape where it meets, and use the direct selection tool to pick where you would like it to go. This way you can individually choose where you would like each item to go.
2. There are many blending options! You can keep it at normal where you can select the item where you would like to paint. This is usually the default, hence the name. Next there is darken. Darken basically keeps dark colors dark, and surrounding lighter colors are replaced. There is multiply which multiplies the colors that you want to blend and the original base color. Color burn increases contrast of the base layers and makes the surround colors are blended. Whereas linear burn is the opposite. Linear burn darkens the base layers and blends the colors in the blending layer. The Subtract mode does exactly what its called, it subtracts the blending layer from the base, which ultimately makes the colors darker. Unlike Subtract, the Lighten Mode makes the colors brighter from comparing the base and blending background. The Screen effect multiplies the colors based on the base layer. It gives a similar effect of multiple images stacked onto one another. Color dodge gives another effect. It reflects the blend color and brightens the base colors to make sure it gives that illusion. Soft light has a more diffused look to the colors. Whereas hard light gives a harsh feel to the colors, it multiples the color.
Difference is a tricky one. It depends on the colors, whichever has a brighter value and subtracts that from the base color and the blend color. Exclusion has a similar effect to difference except the it isn’t as low in contrast. Hue has two effects in a way. For example, it creates a color based on the luminance and saturation from base color but the hue of the blend color. Saturation does a similar thing as hue, except they use hue and luminance for the resulting color. And saturation for the blend color. Color helps with making sure the grey levels in your piece stays the same, and helps tint your piece as well. Lastly, for luminosity it takes the he and saturation of the base color and create a luminous color. It becomes more rich in color as well. (brighter)
1) Adobe Illustrator gives us access to the divide tool. The divide tool lets objects overlap and become independent. To access the divide tool, we go to ‘Window’ at the top menu and scroll down to click on ‘Pathfinder’. Also, as a shortcut you can access the divide tool from your keyboard by clicking SHIFT + COMMAND + F9 if on MAC. Once the Pathfinder moue is opened, you will see two sections which are’ Shape Modes’ and ‘Pathfinders.’ Under the Pathfinder’s section, you can select the first icon from the left which is ‘Divide’. If you have at least two objects, you can go ahead and try to use the divide tool. These objects will be cut out or divided into smaller rectangles. Once these objects become independent, you can go ahead and maneuver them using the direct selection tool.
2) In Adobe Illustrator, you have options when using Blend Mode. This function allows you mix colors and even create a gradient. To access blend mode, you can go to ‘Object’ from the top Adobe illustrator menu. You will see that a new window will pop up which is blend mode. You will see three options which are smooth color, specified steps, and specified distance under spacing. There is also ‘orientation’ which is useful for aligning. In general, blend mode allows you to mix colors and lets you create gradients.
In adobe illustrator we have the divide tool. The divide tool is located in the pathfinder panel. To access Pathfinder, you can go to windows and scroll down to find. It is also located on the right side of the application or Shift + CTRL + F9 as a shortcut. The pathfinder window displays shape modes and pathfinder. Under shape modes, you will find these options: unite, minus front, intersect, and exclude. Beneath shape modes, is pathfinders. The following options for pathfinders are divide, trim, merge, crop, outline and minus back. The divide tool is used to split or “divide” objects into smaller rectangles. Doing this you will be able to create a hollow space or cut out part of a shape. A simple short cut to divide the objects is simply select all the objects with the direct selection tool and press CTRL + A and then click “divide” on the pathfinder window. The shapes selected will automatically show smaller rectangles and from this point you can manipulate the objects by deleting, changing colors in swatches and collapsing.
In illustrator, there is a blending mode and can accessed by going to Objects on the top menu bar. Scroll down to find blend mode options. The blend mode window will then pop up. Under spacing, the three options you’ll find are smooth color, specified steps and specified distance. Under spacing, you’ll also find orientation which is useful for aligning mostly in the center. The blending mode also gives you flexibility to mix different shades of colors and creating gradients.
In adobe illustrator You can use a divide tool , in order to use this tool you need two separate shapes that are in you file and also have to be overlapped. This is going to allow the small part that is overlapping to be independent and create a third shape. in order to find this tool you have to go to windows and go down until you find pathfinder, click it and it should open up the tools . create the shapes you want and overlap a portion of them. After shift and right click the shapes, go to the divide tool and it should be the first one on the bottom left. after doing so go back to object and press unground. Now you should have your new shape.
In adobe Illustrator Blend mode allows you to make more copies of a shape by replacing a shape with another shape. you first have to making two shapes , select and drag the shape you want. Then, create a clone of the shape by clicking it and dragging while pressing option shift. Select both of them by shift right clicking and go to object, select blend, blend options, then In the blend options pick specific steps and chose the number of steps you want. Now, you see the specific number of shapes between the original and the new one.
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1) In Adobe Illustrator, there is a Divide Tool so that, for example, having two shapes on the plane of the sheet, make holes in the main shape and draw a third through it. You can find the Divide tool in the Pathfinder menu by clicking the Window button at the top of the program, or another way is to press the Shift, Control, and F9 buttons in Windows. In the Pathfinder menu, you can see two sections – the Shape Modes and the Pathfinders. Here you can unite, minus front (compound shape and subtract from shape area), intersect (compound shape and intersect shape area), exclude (compound shape and exclude the overlapping area of a shape), also divide, trim, merge, crop, outline and minus back.
Using the Divide tool, you can make the intersection part of any two shapes independent and move it. You can create two shapes and put them on top of each other using the Selection Tool. Then select them together and click on the Divide in Pathfinder menu. Now all areas can be moved separately using the Direct Selection Tool. You can also continue the lines through the holes in the rectangle. The first step is that you create a rectangle with the Shape Tool and inside make circles. Then in the Pathfinder menu, press the Minus Front. Then create another rectangle thinner than the main shape, drag it over to our original form, place it, and click send back. When you have selected all the figures, use the Divide Tool, and with the Direct Selection Tool, you will be able to select all objects and parts of this construction separately.
2) Blending mode allows you to mix colors and create a gradient from them. You can apply this mode to multiple objects at once. To find the blend mode in the top menu in Adobe Illustrator, you click on an Object. You can make, release, expand, replace spine, reverse spine, reverse front to back, and blend options. In the Blend Mode Options menu, you can choose spacing – smooth color, specified steps and specified distance, orientation – align to a page or align to the path.
The divide tool involves use of the direct selection tool (shortcut A) and the pathfinder panel. In order to have the pathfinder panel present in one’s workspace, the user should navigate to the menu bar atop of their Illustrator application and go to “Window.” There, they should be able to find “pathfinder.” Alternatively, the user can bring up the pathfinder panel by using the keyboard shortcut: shift+CMD+F9 (Mac) or shift+CTRL+F9 (Windows). Once open, the user should find that the pathfinder tool has two sections: Shape Modes and Pathfinders. The divide tool is the first icon from the left located under the Pathfinders section.
In order to use the divide tool, the user should have two or more objects to work with. Once said objects are present on the artboard, then the user may use the selection tool to (shortcut V) select the objects that they wish to divide. Then, the user may navigate over to the Pathfinder panel to click on “Divide.” Once the objects have been divided, the user should notice that the objects should be cut into its own separate shapes based on the areas that are intersected by another object. Areas that are overlapping are separated into its own object and will retain the fill and stroke color of the object in the front before the user divided the selected objects. The user will also notice that the objects that have been divided will be group. If the user wishes to interact with each shape individually, then the direct selection tool should be used.
Blending mode is found in the transparency panel. In order to access the transparency panel, the user should navigate to the menu bar atop of their Illustrator application, go to “Window,” and then select “Transparency.” The user may also use the keyboard shortcut: shift+CMD+F10 (Mac) or shift+CTRL+F10 (Windows). At the top of the transparency panel, the user should notice that there is a drop down menu, which should read “Normal” on default and to the right of it, it should read “Opacity: 100%.” The drop down menu is a list of the blending modes available for the selected object. The blending mode options that are available are: Normal, Darken, Multiply, Color Burn, Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity.
I like your comprehensive explanation about the Divide Tool and that you mentioned how to access pathfinder panel MAC and PC easier and quicker.
Demonstration of divide tool
Here is how to use the divide tool in illustrator. The divide tool allows overlapping objects to become independent. To demonstrate the ability of this tool, make two rectangles using the m key with one part of a rectangle overlapping the other. Open the pathfinder tool using ctrl plus shift plus f9 (command plus shift plus f9 on mac). Use the selection tool (v key) and drag your mouse over the overlapping rectangles. Press on the “divide” button located in the pathfinders toolbox. Now, the overlapping part between the two objects is now independent. You can use the direct selection tool (v key) to select the newly independent object and move it around.
2nd demonstration of divide tool
Make a rectangle using the m key. Then, create 3 white circles using the eclipse tool (L key) and put them on the rectangle. Open the pathfinder tool using ctrl plus shift plus f9 (command plus shift plus f9 on mac). Use the selection tool (v key) and drag your mouse over the rectangle with white circles and press the “minus front” button in the shapes mode category. Create a thin different color rectangle and put it under the white circles. Select all the objects and press divide in the pathfinder menu. Some of the overlapping parts can now be colored to make it look like the thin rectangle is going through the white circles.
Blend mode
Blend mode allows the person to make multiple copies of a gradient object, replace an object with another object, etc. For making multiple copies of a gradient object, create an object. Then, create a clone of that object and put it an inch away from the original object. Select both objects, then go object > blend > blend options. In the blend options, pick “specific steps” and select the number of steps you want it to be. Now, you see the specific number of objects between the original object and the copied object.
Oh! Since the discussion question #2 said blend MODE, I thought it was talking about blending mode in the transparency panel this entire time, and I ended up writing about that for my response. But your response makes more sense hahah. I think that it was very helpful that your explanation included two sets of demonstration for using the pathfinder options.
your steps were clear and helpful. i forgot how to do the blend and i followed your steps to figure it out again.
Great explanation and guidance for a beginner. I liked the fact that you gave and described a second demonstration which helps understand deeper.