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Manipulating and editing nodes - Affinity Designer Tutorial
From the course: Affinity Designer Essential Training
Manipulating and editing nodes
- [Instructor] In the last movie, I showed you how to create the profile of this bottle using the pen tool and I told you, in the next movie, we're going to complete the opposite side of this bottle. But, before I do that, I want to show you how to manipulate and adjust the nodes on your image. So if you go up to the top here and what you'll see is, you see my line is not as clean and straight as I would like to be and since we're dealing with a object that would be machined, we want it to look exactly the same on the opposite side. So I'm just going to make a couple of adjustments just so it feels a little bit better to me and then we'll copy it over and combine the two lines to create a shape. So, if you go over to the left hand side here and hit the node tool or click A on your keyboard, as the shortcut, and I'm just going to zoom in here and I'm going to turn on my grids by holding down the Command key and hitting semicolon. And I'm going to click on this line and now you could…
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