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?
Question 01 –
Describe how use the divide tool. What happens to the overlapping areas?
Create your desired shapes with a shape tool located at the Toolbar on the left side of your screen. To open the pathfinder panel, you must click on “Window” towards the top of your screen. Go through the drop down list to find “Pathfinder”. If the pathfinder panel is opened, start selecting all your shapes by pressing the keyboard buttons “Ctrl A” or you can drag the mouse over the shapes. After selecting your shapes, under the title “Pathfinders”, the first option will say “Divide”. Click on the “Divide” option, which is the icon that has two shapes overlapping each other. The “Divide” tool will cut one object out of another, thus creating a new shape.
Question 02 –
What choices can you make when using the Blend Mode Options?
In Normal Blending modes you have normal and dissolve. In Darken Blending modes you have darken, multiply, color burn, linear burn, and darker color options. In Lighten Blending Modes we have lighten, screen, color dodge, linear dodge (Add), and lighter color. In Contrast Blending Modes there are overlay, soft light, hard light, vivid light, linear light, pin light, and hard mix options. In Inversion Blending Modes you have difference, exclusion, subtract, and divide. Lastly, in Component Blending Modes we have hue, saturation, color, and luminosity.
Question 01 –
Describe how use the divide tool. What happens to the overlapping areas?
In Adobe Illustrator, you can find the “Divide” tool within the “Pathfinder” panel. To bring out the pathfinder panel, go to the “Window” tab in the horizontal toolbar in the top left corner of the screen. In the drop-down list that comes down from the “Window” tab, you will see the “Pathfinder” button around the “P” section of the alphabetized drop-down list. If the pathfinder panel is already on the screen you will see a highlighted blue check box on the right side of the tool button. Once the pathfinder panel is open, either select all with ” Ctrl + A” or make a selection marquee around the area you want to divide. Once you have the desired areas selected, go to the open pathfinder panel. You will see a row titled, “Shape Modes”, and a row “titled, “Pathfinders”. Under the “Pathfinders” row you will see an array of buttons. The first button is an icon of two squares overlapping each other with the title, “Divide”. By clicking this button, you separate all overlapping areas and create individual shapes.
Question 02 –
What choices can you make when using the Blend Mode Options?
You can access Blend Mode Options by going to the “Window” tab in the upper left corner of the screen and selecting the “Transparency” tool. In the transparency panel, you will see a button next to the opacity slider with the display, “normal”. Here is where you will find your blend mode options. The blend mode options are normal, darken, multiply, color burn, lighten, screen, color dodge, overlay, soft light, hard light, difference, exclusion, hue, color, saturation, luminosity, Each blend mode changes the way overlapping object appear in your artwork. The use of blend modes can yield very interesting combinations of color and overlay.
Question 01 –
Describe how use the divide tool. What happens to the overlapping areas?
You can use the divide tool by simply highlighting your shapes with the Selection tool and going to windows and pressing pathfinder or you can (shift-control-f9) next thing you would have to do is press the divide button. The overlapping areas become a new shape that retains its original fill and stroke.
Question 02 –
What choices can you make when using the Blend Mode Options?
The choices that you can make when using Blend Mode Options are normal, dissolve, darken, multiply, lighten, linear dodge (ADD), difference, hue, saturation, color, luminosity, lighten color, and darker color blending modes.