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Helpful plugins for Adobe Illustrator

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Helpful plugins for Adobe Illustrator

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is always a good thing. In this movie, I want to show you two plugins I use every day to craft my vector art with precision. They're called VectorScribe and SubScribe and I'm going to go to what's called the PathScribe tool. In Illustrator, when you install VectorScribe, you're going to get these four tools showing up in your toolbar and the one we want to focus on right now is PathScribe and this is going to act the same way that the other tool does in terms of being able to grab a handle, pull it out, grab a handle, or grab a path and pull it out, grab a handle and adjust it to finesse your curve. None of that's going to change, but one thing I want to point out is, notice how it puts these white dots on the path. These are called Ghost Handles, I love the name, but what's nice about it is you can just grab those and immediately pull out the handle, but notice when I'm adjusting this one with the plugin, it's not affecting the curve on the other side of the anchor point. That's what…

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