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Rounding off corner points

Rounding off corner points - Illustrator Tutorial

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Rounding off corner points

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to round the corners of any shape that contains corner points regardless of how you draw it. So, as you can see here I've given my rounded rectangle a little bit of a thicker stroke just for the sake of appearance, but now I'm going to go ahead and click on it with my black arrow tool, and I'll press the backspace key or the delete key on a Mac to get rid of it. And now I'll go ahead and select the pen tool, which of course I can get by pressing the P key. And I'm going to draw a zigzag shape. Now, if you're working along with me, I recommend that you don't draw the shape too quickly because what happens oftentimes when you just start click, click, clicking all over the place is that you accidentally drag and you create a very tiny smooth point as a result. Anyway, I've just gone ahead and created a few zigzags here. And then I'll go ahead and press the A key in order…

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