Letter on top of letter effect.

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How do you get this effect?

http://fivestones.com/NormMyers/images/Logos.jpg

look at the "vital communications" logo, see how the circle overlaps the V and how they cut the colors apart? well hwo do i do that? i can just cut it out wiht the scissors tool but when i get to a closed letter like D or O then i cant cut the inside part out.

 

[jmgalvin]

It done with the Pathfinder. All that was done was the V was converted to a outline and placed over the oval. Both objects were selected and, with Pathfinder, Exclude overlap was chosen.

 

[yoderman94]

THe problem your having with the text is you need to convert it to outlines, ctrl+shift+O or cmd+shift+O if your mac. Then you will have to relase the compound path, I thilk its ctrl+shift+8. Its under one the edit menu I think, or the one right beside it. Now the paths will become the same color, but you can then edit each path seperatly then reselect both and convert back to a compound path.

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