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Editing a shape with the Curvature tool

Editing a shape with the Curvature tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Editing a shape with the Curvature tool

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll create this tower or turret or whatever it is. And this will give me an opportunity to show you how you can use the curvature tool to edit a shape drawn with any other tool inside Illustrator. And so I'll go ahead and press Control + Y or Command + Y on the Mac to switch to the outline mode so that I can see the photographic image in the background. And then I'll grab the rectangle tool, which you can get by pressing the M key. And I'll go ahead and press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on the Mac to zoom out slightly farther. And I'm going to start dragging from this bottom right point that's associated with the archway. And because my smart guides are turned on, I can tell that I'm snapping to that anchor point. And now I'll drag up to right about here. So I want to snap into alignment with the top of the wall and I want to be able to trace along the right-hand edge of that turret. If…

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