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Erasing and smoothing away lumps

Erasing and smoothing away lumps - Illustrator Tutorial

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Erasing and smoothing away lumps

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to erase and smooth away those lumps that are showing up periodically inside the artwork. I'll also show you how to erase in order to achieve some very sharp corners. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and do a scrubby zoom on this guy right here by control spacebar or command spacebar dragging and I'll press the control key to temporarily access the move tool. That would be the command key on the Mac and click on this black path in order to select it. And then I'll erase away that little detail there. But notice that that leaves me with a ton of points, and that's because, once again, where I had to press the enter key or the return key on the Mac in order to bring up the eraser tool options dialog box, there is no fidelity setting. So it has not been updated to match the smoothness of the blob brush. All right, so I'll cancel out. But what we can use instead, is the dedicated…

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