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Contouring roots and limbs

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Contouring roots and limbs

I have saved my changes as Roughened edges.ai found inside the 10_pathfinder folder, and in this exercise now that we've gotten some credible results out of the foliage, at least good enough for now. We are going to take on the black trunks in the background there. Now some of you may have a little bit of a question, why did I take that big foliage path, which is now part of yet another group? I am going to go ahead and meatball that group and ungroup it just by pressing Ctrl+Shirt+G or Cmd+Shift+G on the Mac just to get rid of that group. Why didn't I just take this guy right there? The big compound path, which I'll call the main foliage, so we can keep track of it there. Why didn't I apply Roughened and round corners directly to it, rather than applying it to a Pen tool path that I then intersected with the original? And the reason is this. Had I applied it to the entire path outline, then I would have roughed up everything. In other words, I would have made the entire tree jagged…

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