Use Compound shapes or image trace to create cool and highly customizable paper cut out effects in Adobe Illustrator CC. Paper Cut Out Illustrator Tutorial.

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Recording notes:

• FIRST METHOD:
• New 2560×1440 doc in Photoshop
• Fill with 75% brightness gray
• Load a large soft-edges brush with 25% gray and paint a couple clustered dots near the center of the document
• Gaussian blur it 100px
• Add a Posterize effect to this and count out 9 levels of color stepping
• Copy this graphic into Illustrator
• Trace the Image [default] with color
• Expand the trace and ungroup to individual shapes
• SECOND METHOD:
• New illustrator document 2560×1440
• Add a rectangle the size of the docuemnt and center to the background
• Add a medium ellipse in the center area
• Select both shapes and alt/opt click minus front option in the Pathfinder to create a compound shape
• Double click the Warp tool and set the brush to 500px and a power of 50% with 1% detail and 100% simplicity
• Warp and make the first of our shapes like this
• Object>Path>Simplify and simplify the path as much as possible
• Offset this path 75px and move the two new shapes above and re-minus front them
• Fill with a different color
• Repeat this process and simplify some of the paths if needed as you go
• Select everything and do a big Warp tool adjustment if you want to adjust the size and relation of the layers a bit
• Select all the shapes and apply a 70% black drop shadow with 5px of X and Y and a 6px blur
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