From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
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Advanced simplification
From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
Advanced simplification
- [Instructor] All right, so here we are inside Illustrator, looking at the very jagged version of that custom Yew tree shape. And so notice if I click on it with the black arrow tool, that we're seeing a ton of anchor points. And the reason I brought this shape back is because Illustrator actually provides two different simplify functions. The one we saw in the previous movie is very basic, just a single slider bar. And the other, which we'll see in this movie, is more advanced, but it also gives you more control. And so I'll press Control + plus or Command + plus on the Mac to zoom in on this jagged outline. And then I'll once again right-click inside the document window and choose the Simplify command. And that's going to bring up that same single slider bar that we saw before. What you want to do now is click on this dot dot dot icon, this ellipsis, which always indicates that you're going to bring up a dialog box…
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