From the course: Introducing Illustrator
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Dragging curved segments - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Illustrator
Dragging curved segments
- [Tutor] Alright, now that I've showed you the hard way, or at least the precise way to adjust the curvature of a segment using the Control handles, I'll show you the easy way, which is to just drag on the segment with the White Arrow tool. And so I'll go ahead and switch over to the White Arrow, or if you prefer the Direct Selection tool, which has a keyboard shortcut of A for arrow, and then I'll click on this segment. And I want you to notice something, it's much easier to tell when curves segments are selected, as opposed to straight segments, because in addition to the fact that all of the anchor points are hollow, we're also seeing these two Control handles on either side of the segment. And now notice if I position my cursor over that segment, I see an arrowhead along with a curve between two anchor points, which tells me I can drag this segment directly. And notice as I do, Illustrator goes ahead and modifies…
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