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Adding and deleting anchor points

Adding and deleting anchor points - Illustrator Tutorial

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Adding and deleting anchor points

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- In this movie, I'll show you how you can add and delete anchor points once again using the pen tool. As well as how you move anchor points around using the white arrow tool. So let's say that I want to add some points to this closed path right here. Well, if I hover my cursor over the path notice that it lights up. You can actually see a red outline inside the black stroke. However, my cursor is still showing an asterisk which tells me that if I start clicking all I'm going to do is create a new path outline like so. That's not what I want. So, I'll go ahead and press the backspace key or the delete key on the Mac twice in a row to get rid of that path. And the reason you have to do it twice is the first time you're going to get rid of the selected anchor point, like so. And then the second time you're going to get rid of the remaining path outline. Notice that both anchor points are now selected. So to get rid of a…

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