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Posted by saad
saad
26,165 Points

Illustrator Foundations - Creating an Icon - Using Pathfinder with Objects

Hi

When I pressed merge it deleted parts of the icon image. Where did i go wrong?

5 Answers

Nick Pettit
STAFF
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Saad Meah,

It sounds like you used the wrong merge type, but I can't be sure. Can you link me to the specific video you're having trouble with?

In the meantime, this article from Adobe might help. It's about merging objects in Illustrator: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6462a.html

saad
saad
26,165 Points
saad
saad
26,165 Points

Hi Nick!

Thanks for the response.

Here's the link:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/websites/illustrator-foundations/illustrator-project-01/using-pathfinder-with-objects

Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Saad Meah,

It sounds to me like you're clicking the wrong Shape Mode on the Pathfinder panel. The different modes will combine the intersections of objects in different ways. For example, you can merge objects and ignore the overlap, you can keep only the overlap, or you can keep the objects but delete the overlap.

Does that make sense? :)

saad
saad
26,165 Points
saad
saad
26,165 Points

Thanks, I get it now. I'll give it a try.

Peter Makowski
Peter Makowski
11,244 Points
Peter Makowski
Peter Makowski
11,244 Points

I've got the same problem and no matter which type I click, every time some part of the image gets deleted. I tried to move layers forward/backwards, no luck.

Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points
Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points

I'm having the same issue, when I go to merge the straight line erase but the moon remains