Illustrator How-To: Using Pathfinder Effects to Design Woodcut Logos with Doug Panton
This story is taken from “Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated.”
Doug Panton uses Illustrator to design corporate identities that can be used for advertising, packaging, and branding, among other uses. The corporate logos he creates are often extracted from larger illustrations, which mean all elements must not only work together as a whole but must be easily dissembled into discrete parts as well.
Illustrator’s Pathfinder techniques are an indispensable part of Panton’s toolbox. With Pathfinder effects he can add, subtract, intersect, crop, and otherwise work with multiple paths so that each element retains its integrity yet merges seamlessly into the larger picture. This approach affords him great flexibility. See how in this excerpt.
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This article was last modified on January 3, 2023
This article was first published on June 13, 2003
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