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Aligning open paths

Aligning open paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Aligning open paths

Alright, I'm back in Photoshop looking at the original template called Flint rain flower crocodile.jpg. And notice that we have a couple of curlicues that we need to deal with. One is this line that represents the nostril on this creature's snout and we also have a blue snout going. Notice, that I'm not going to render the snout in blue because I think it ends up making the crocodile look like a dog and I want this crocodile to look like a mean serpent. So we're going to leave that area green but we do need the nostril line. And then we've got a little bit of a curl descending here into the brow as well. So the question becomes is that curl part of the larger path outline? So in other words where the big green face path is concerned, does the shape start right about here and then pursue along into the mouth, down around the jaw, back up again and then end in this curlicue or do we add the curl afterwards in the form of the separate path? Well, where the brows concerned, it's going to…

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