Illustrator Urgent! Question with Pictures!

[JoeyNL]

Hey guys!


Thanks for reading this post, i searched for 3 days but couldnt find a easy soloution so i came to photoshopgurus hoping you guys can help me out.

I try to be realy clear about my problem, and excuse me for my English.

I am new to illustrator, more into photoshop but for my work i need icons for any size.

So let me show you what i got :



This is the end product, but there is a problem.

I made it out of simple rectangle shapes :



So the "Blue" background is not really a background but just a colored rectangle.


It needs to be transparent so you can place it anywhere :


So how can i make the something like this without overlapping alot of layers like i did, i hope you guys understand my problem.

Thanks in advanced,

Joey

 

[JoeyNL]

I did a live trace to show what i want, but with live trace the lines will never be perfect, but to give a idea :

 

[hawkeye]

Draw two rectangles and use the Minus Pathfinder function to cut the hole.

 

[JoeyNL]

Draw two rectangles and use the Minus Pathfinder function to cut the hole.

Dude, thank you so much.

Hard things can be so simple, im glad there are people like you helping others.

+1

 

[mikelamar]

Or u can select the window+background and make a compound path