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Using the Node tool

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Using the Node tool

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- [Instructor] Once you've created a path, you'll often need to edit its shape. The tool for this job is the node tool, and with it, you can make precise adjustments to your paths with many ways of adding, moving, and deleting nodes and node handles. So let's check it out. To get the node tool, you can click it in the toolbar right here, or press the letter N on your keyboard, or double-click on a path with the selector tool. You can select objects when you have the node tool by clicking directly on a path or inside a path if that path has a fill. If the path has no fill, then you can't select it with the node tool by clicking inside it. You would have to click right on the path in that case. And when you select an object with the node tool, you can see right away which objects are live shapes and which ones are paths. And we'll see each kind of live shapes in detail in other movies. But for now, look at these two…

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