How to Merge Shapes in Illustrator

Learn how to combine and merge shapes in Illustrator in this tutorial. Using both the Shape Builder Tool and the Pathfinder options, you can combine shapes, merge shapes, exclude shapes, cut shapes, and more in Adobe Illustrator!
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[@pieceocountry]

Thanks so much for all your quick tutorials. I think this one helped solve a problem I was having. Yay!! I am pretty new and while I "learned" about the shape builder tool, I had forgotten about it!

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How nice and fast explanation, thank you! :)

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Shape tool was exactly what I was looking for!

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Thanks bro straight to the point!

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thanks, super usefull and strait to point

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I've been looking for an answer for this question for like 3 days now (not straight, but definitely off and on when I'm working on my logo). THANK YOU!!!

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