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Working with smooth and corner points

Working with smooth and corner points - Illustrator Tutorial

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Working with smooth and corner points

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll introduce you to smooth and corner points, both of which you can create using the curvature tool. But before I leave this path outline I'm going to increase its line weight to let's say eight points. Now notice that even though that path that I drew in the previous movie is selected, I have an asterisk next to my cursor which shows me that if I were to click I would begin a new path outline as I have in this case. And so, as you can see I've gone ahead and created a new anchor point. All right, now, if I click again I'll create yet another anchor point and I'll join the two together at first with a straight segment. But as soon as I move my cursor away the segment begins to curve. And now click down here at the bottom. I'll click over here as well. And then I'll click back here at the top. Now, every single one of the points that I've created so far is a smooth point which means…

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