From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
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Reshaping a custom path outline
From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
Reshaping a custom path outline
- [Instructor] All right, now we're still inside illustrator. Let me explain what am going to show you at least one way to manually reshape an overly complex path outline associated with a custom shape included along with Photoshop. And so notice if I click on this path outline with the Black Arrow Tool then I've still got an awful lot of anchor points. And notice if I scroll down using the scroll wheel on my mouse, I've got these routes. I do not want to see them. I just want the tree to go all the way down to this red bleed boundary. And so I'm going to zoom in just using the Zoom Tool at the bottom of the toolbox, which you can get by pressing the Z key and I'll drag to the right so I can get a good look at these anchor points. All right, now one way to go get rid of these inner anchor points here will be to select the White Arrow Tool. The one that illustrator calls, the Direct Selection Tool, which you get by…
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