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Alternate ways to create cusp points

Alternate ways to create cusp points

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Alternate ways to create cusp points

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- [Narrator] In this movie, I'll show you three alternate ways to create cusp points. And once again, these techniques work inside Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. And so, last time around, as you may recall, we started with a smooth point, and that's how it always works when you want to create a curve. And so, again armed with the Active cursor, I'll just go ahead and click and drag to create a smooth point like so. And then I'll release to return to the Active cursor. But wait a second, we want to create a cusp point, right? Well, that's no problem, because the Pen tool doubles as an editing tool, and so what you do is move the Active cursor over the latest endpoint, at which point, a caret appears next to the cursor. In Photoshop the embellishment initially appears as a diagonal line. So let's call this the Convert cursor, because it's going to allow us to convert the smooth point to a cusp. Now, armed with the Convert cursor, you don't want to merely drag, because that will…

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