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Step 14Excluding filled areas
As in the first image, select one of the internal shapes by clicking on the outline. While holding down the shift button, select the outside shape (the large shape created by tracing the roads) as well. Holding down shift allows you to select 2 or more shapes at once. You will see the arrows from around the bounding box move to the outer perimeter of all the objects that are selected. Practice this when you are zoomed out if you have any trouble in understanding what is happening.
From the Path menu select Exclusion. This will punch the smaller shape from the large one.
Work your way around the image until you have punched out all the internal shapes and you are left with just the areas where the roads are with the light grey fill as shown in the last image.
The good thing about using this technique is that now it is one shape that can be moved and edited easily.
From the Path menu select Exclusion. This will punch the smaller shape from the large one.
Work your way around the image until you have punched out all the internal shapes and you are left with just the areas where the roads are with the light grey fill as shown in the last image.
The good thing about using this technique is that now it is one shape that can be moved and edited easily.
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