From the course: Adobe Pen Tool: Mastery
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Converting shapes and anchor points
From the course: Adobe Pen Tool: Mastery
Converting shapes and anchor points
- [Instructor] Now so far throughout this course we've seen a bunch of different ways in which the Pen Tool and the arrow tools and so forth behave in very similar fashions across the three Adobe design programs, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. But InDesign does go its own way. We're converting between different kinds of shapes and different kinds of anchor points. So for example, right now we're looking at a circle, pretty simple design. I'll go ahead and click on the circle with the black arrow tool to select it, and now I'll go up to the Object menu, choose Convert Shape, and then choose any of these items, most of which are fairly straightforward. For example, a Rectangle's going to give you a rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, and so forth, but by way of demonstration I'll choose Beveled Rectangle, which is going to bevel off the corners, like so. Now if you want to adjust the amount of beveling then you go up here to this value on the far right side of the control panel and you…
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Custom symbols and page ornaments4m 16s
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Drawing a custom symbol in InDesign10m 3s
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Drawing in Illustrator and pasting into InDesign13m 35s
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Creating inline graphics8m 34s
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Converting shapes and anchor points7m 46s
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Creating type along a path outline8m 47s
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Creating text around a circle7m 21s
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Creating text inside any path outline4m 31s
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Wrapping text around an offset path8m 52s
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Customizing text converted to outlines10m 4s
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