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Path simplification

Path simplification - Illustrator Tutorial

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Path simplification

- [Instructor] Path simplification has been given an overhaul and also a new way of working with it. Where previously you would go to the Objects menu and down to Path and choose Simplify, which you actually can still do, there's a quicker way to work. So if I select these paths here and just go into outline mode for a second, you can see there are quite a lot of points on those mountains. So what I'm going to do is right-click and choose Simplify, and this is the new widget that we get. Now, the two icons show less points and more points, and as you move, it will tell you what the result is. Of course, it's always going to be a trade-off between accuracy and actually getting the points you want, and in that case you have a couple of options. You can either accept that or use the magic option here, autosimplify, or hit the ellipsis to go into the dialog and actually choose pretty much in the old way, but it does…

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