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Converting a spline curve to Bézier - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Converting a spline curve to Bézier
I've saved my changes as curly snout.ai found inside the 09_pen_tool folder. Now we're going to take a look at how to draw those fangs, very important. But before we do, there is something that's bugging me. If I zoom in on this snout, you can see that it has a little bit of kind of a clumsy corner associated with it, and this is by no means a nice fluid organic curve, which is what we normally associate with Bezier curves inside of Illustrator. And it's because I took that shortcut I used the round corners effect in order to fabricate a spline curve, which is an easier point of entry into curves in Illustrator, however, it doesn't give us much control. So let's say at this point you're thinking bafooie, this spline curves. Let's go ahead and do everything with Beziers, how in the world do I convert this path outline over? Well, you might think what you could do, I'll go ahead and zoom out so that you can see why this is the wrong decision. You might think that you could go ahead and…
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Connecting the dots1m
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Drawing a straight-sided path6m 53s
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Moving and deleting points7m 46s
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Editing a path as you go7m 5s
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Switching arrow tools on the fly4m 27s
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Dragging, nudging, and marqueeing4m 28s
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Faking a spline curve5m 54s
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Adding corners to a spline7m 15s
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Introducing Bézier curves8m 8s
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Drawing perfect smooth points9m 24s
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How control handles work10m 17s
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Tracing a smooth path outline9m 52s
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Connecting smooth and cusp points5m 22s
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Combining different varieties of points9m 14s
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Finessing points and segments5m 32s
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Aligning open paths5m 38s
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Splitting and joining paths8m 51s
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Converting a spline curve to Bézier10m 9s
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Cusp points and miter limits6m 45s
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Using the Convert Point tool4m 42s
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Drawing one path inside another4m 20s
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Stacking clipped paths4m 28s
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Copying and repurposing segments9m 57s
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Grabbing and transforming a whole layer7m 14s
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