How to Cut Out a Shape in Illustrator

In this video, I’ll review several ways to cut out a shape in Illustrator. This tutorial was written using Adobe Illustrator CC 2018, but these instructions should work no matter which version of Illustrator you have, as long as you’re using vector elements and not a raster image.



Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:23 How to Use a Shape as a Cookie Cutter
1:10 How to Cut Out a Shape Using the Knife Tool
1:53 How to Cut Out a Shape With the Scissors Tool
2:35 How to Cut Out a Shape With the Crop Tool
3:19 How to Use a Clipping Mask to Cut Out a Shape
3:58 End screen



What you’ll learn:
1. How to Use a Shape as a Cookie Cutter
a. How to use the Divide Object Below command
b. How to Use the Selection tool
c. How to leave a circular path on the rectangle
2. How to Cut Out a Shape Using the Knife Tool
a. How to Use the Knife tool to cut out a shape
b. How to use the Knife tool to slice multiple shapes
3. How to Cut Out a Shape With the Scissors Tool
a. How to find the Scissors tool
b. How to create an anchor point
c. How to Create a second anchor point
d. How to add a third anchor point with the Scissors tool
4. How to Cut Out a Shape With the Crop Tool
a. How to Display the Pathfinder panel
b. How to select the Crop tool
c. How to subtract the object in front from the object behind it
5. How to Use a Clipping Mask to Cut Out a Shape
a. How to use another shape as a clipping mask
b. How to use clipping masks to hide parts of shapes





















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