From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony

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Optimize shapes - Harmony Tutorial

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Optimize shapes

- I've covered this previously, but I think it's a good idea to have this particular process out here by itself in the movie in case you ever forget and wonder, "Where did he mention that trick before?" And it's how to optimize a line. So when I drew this brush, you can see it's done it all with different strokes, so let's flatten it, and of course you can set it to do that automatically if you go to the Tools Properties panel. Let's just open that up a little bit. Take that arrow and we can set this icon here to auto-flatten. Occasionally it'll misfire and won't work for me. In that case you'll have this, and in which case you just simply select it, go into the Tools options and then flatten it manually, and you'll see it. It's now one nice object. So let's go in a little tighter. And a few ways to optimize this. Let's select this, and actually we'll go to Contour Editor instead. We'll use the Smooth Editor, and then we have the color, which we can, this it the color of the brush…

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