Minus Front From Two Layers

I am currently following a tutorial to create some illustrations. One part of this tutorial makes use of the minus-front function with the pathfinder. An ellipse apparently needs to be "subtracted" from the bottom right-hand corner of a rectangle and its outline rectangle the lays behind it. I am unsure as to how to subtract the ellipse from both of those layers as it appears it can only be subtracted from one using the pathfinder.
Here are the steps in the tutorial:
Step 3 is what I am having trouble with.
All help is appreciated!
Thanks,
Alex

Alex,
To use the way described, you have to select one ellipse/circle for each underlying path and apply Minus Front to each set.
It should be noted that there are other ways of getting the appearance described.

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I was able to expand font & expand stroke - Then minus front with success.
However, when I expand all layers, select all layers, hold (alt) & Minus Front
I get mixed results, such as missing layers from (B,C,D).
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since you are using Photoshop for mockups and you need the black art to be transparent--here is (what I hope) is a useful idea:
simply build your art using white (as in your original post) then save yourself a lot of time and effort by doing this--turn off the background layer and 'export' art as a high resolution (say 1200 dpi) graysacle tiff--then open the tiff in Photoshop and convert it to a 1-bit tiff--using '50% Threshold' setting (which will be transparent and just black).
you can then drop the 1 bit into an illustrator file with a colored background and save as PDF or export as jpeg, tiff, png etc (but don't save over the original Illus document--use a different name)
note: the 1200 dpi 1-bit tiff should yield you a a decent film positive or you can print the black layer only (from Illustrator) with the background turned off
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bovine wrote:
... it's almost completly gone.
It is hard to imagine how an almost completely gone object looks like in the Layer's panel
See the little blue squares highlighted in the image, they indicate selected objects . This is called the Selection Column in the Layers panel. You can select any object with equal ease by clicking on the selection column - the red arrow points to the spot you can click to select that path.
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Sure, Monika, but it's just what the screenshot shows and there it is pretty obvious what objects are meant.
As it is not obvious about what specific objects we are talking in the sample file, I'd suggest another approach.
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Good day!
A simple Paste does not work for you?
It should place the clipboard content as a new Layer which you can then move around.
If there is any chance that the elements need to be scaled, rotated etc. I would prefer to place them as Smart Objects (File > Place …) and do the masking that is specific to the images themselves in those.
Regards,
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Hey guys, I am a newbee in Illustrator. Currently I am following a tutorial. I know most of the basic functions. But lately I have a irritating issue and cant seem to find a logical solution on internet too, of course I tried them. here are the details>>>
1.I have created a polygon with 150px radius. black stroke and yellow fill. then applied round corner effect from effects>stylize.
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i think the problem is your expanded first shape is now a group consisting of a stroked object and a filled object., and the stroked object perfectly overlays the filled one (since they used to be a single object). so when you try to minus front, you'd end up with no shapes, as one of your shapes in front perfectly overlaps the shape at the back.
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I'm french, and I already posted a question a few times ago, on this forum and I was very satisfied with your quick answers, so I come ask again a little question...
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It's quite complicated to understand and explain... I know ... and I'm very sorry ...
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2 (
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2097
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There is one dialog for making a panorama from images ... single dialog for aligning and blending.
And, two dialogs for making a panorama from layers ... separate dialogs for aligning and blending.
There is no option for making a stack from images ...
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Why don't you make all of those things in a more systematic way?
One dialog for making panoramas and stacks from images ... single dialog for aligning and blending ... selectable separately
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