# Illustrator help! Damn this blob!

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**Created:** [August 19, 2007, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-help-damn-this-blob/236265 "2007-08-19T07:08:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![badlydrawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@badlydrawn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/badlydrawn)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2007, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-help-damn-this-blob/236265/1 "2007-08-19T07:08:52Z")

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Hey guys! I’m fairly new here and don’t post often, but I love this website and these forums, they’re a great source of information and help! Anyways… I need help with illustrator, and I hope that someone here can help me.

I am trying to create a sort of a “highlight” or “shadow” effect on a blob type shape that I have drawn.

![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/4007/c1e36a2a7c2cf799.jpg)

Here is the blob.

I then drew a rough shape around the blob where I want my highlight to be…

![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/4008/18b5bf319cbe3d2f.jpg)

What I want to do, is intersect it or cut out the area of the shape that I wont be using for the highlight. I hope this makes sense… to create something like this… ( keep in mind, I did this final pic in photoshop, its very rough but I hope you get the idea. )

![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/4009/997649915aa7a15e.jpg)

I tried using the divide tool in pathfinders, and then deleted the left over shapes. It SORT of worked, but my strokes were all messed up. what i pretty much wnt to do is instead of giving each newly cut out shape it’s own stroke, I want to put a single stroke over 2 shapes, which are DIFFERENT COLORS that I have recently devided. Problem is…is that I don’t know how and I’ve been confused as hell for a few hours. Add to shape area won’t do it because it will make everything the same color, which is something that I don’t want. I even tried grouping the two shapes, and then applying the stroke, but I yielded the same effect.

So please! Kirupa, pimp my vector!