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Reconciling misaligned paths

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Reconciling misaligned paths

I have saved my progress to Slightly off alignment.ai. So called, because our endpoints here at the knee are slightly out off alignment with each other. So here's how to solve the problem. At least this is what I came up with in my case, you may have to experiment a little to get exactly the same results. But what I am going to do here is scroll to the bottom of the layers panel and turn off the template layer so that we can focus our attention just on this green knee. I am also going to turn off the guides layers for now. We will come back to it later. I am going to press Ctrl+Y or Cmd+ Y on the Mac to switch to the outline mode, so that we can better see our path outlines. I am going press Shift+Tab in order to hide those right side panels so I have more room to work. Now with the Black Arrow tool I am going to click on this path outline to select it here and I am going to switch over to the Scissors tool, which you may have to select from the Eraser tool flyout menu, or you can…

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