: How to cut out a shape from another shape that has effects? I'm making some art that involves molecules and stuff and wanted to cut out a part of the parent ring. I tried the subtract function
I'm making some art that involves molecules and stuff and wanted to cut out a part of the parent ring. I tried the subtract function in the pathfinder that comes in Adobe Illustrator CS6 but it gives me some distorted shape. The brown base layer has a bloat effect of 2% on it to make the sides a little bit rounded, does that matter? What am I doing wrong?
I'm trying to cut out the circle shape from the brown base such that it looks as if the circle was white in color when placed over a white background. I could do just that but I don't want the white circle in transparent pngs.
I didn't know what to search to check if anyone else had the same problem so I thought I should just ask a new question. Any help would be much appreciated!
[Image 1 is before subtraction and image 2 is after.]
Note: I'm not very familiar with illustrator but I'm pretty comfortable with photoshop so detailed answers might be required, sorry for the trouble!
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Actually the bloat effect is adding on the brown base even after the subtraction. It means the effect will add on the new subtracted base which creates the shape like in Image 2. Here is one of my way to make my object editable without the previous effects affecting.
1. After created the base and added the effect of bloat 2%. You may see that the actual outline of the object.
2. select the base and go to "Object" >> "Flatten Transparency". Tick the option "Convert All Strokes to outline".
3. The new outline is created.However, the effects cannot edit again in "Appearance".
4. next, just select the the circle and the base for subtraction as before. And, use "Pathfinder" for subtraction.
Hope this helps.
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