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Finessing a complex outline

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Finessing a complex outline

I've saved my progress as Bulb and base.psd, found inside the 27_pen_tool folder, and we're going to take this path outline that we've constructed almost entirely using just the Rectangle and Ellipse tools, just a little bit of Pen tool action down here at the bottom of the base, and we are going to refine the path outline so that it looks absolutely right, much as we refined the path outline for the magazine spread. The difference is that this is a more complicated path outline, so it's very possible we're going to encounter a few new issues. Now, if you're working along with me, your path outline might have slightly different problems than mine and so you're going to have to evaluate your path outline as you move along. Now my outline needs work in this region here, down here at the base, a little bit of action over on the left-hand side, and then on the right side of the glass, we've got quite a few problems going on and they're not that evident from this distance, but once we…

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