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Copying and repurposing segments - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Copying and repurposing segments
I've saved my changes as Colorful tongue.ai found inside the 09_pen_tool folder. So called because if I were to press Ctrl+Y or Command+Y on the Mac, you can see that we do indeed have a colorful tongue, it begins red up here in the gums, and in rear portion of the tongue, we've got a gold band and then a blue tip. I want to add a black base in order to further distinguish the tongue from the lower elements down here, such as the teeth, and the bottom gums and the yellow of the lips and so on. I am going to create this band of blackness using the tongue's very own path outline. So I am going to duplicate the bottom of the tongue a couple of times in order to create a new path outline. So I'll press Ctrl+Y or Command+Y on the Mac to once again switch to the Outline Mode, and I'm going to go ahead and click on the outline of the tongue with my White Arrow tool and this is the point I am looking for, this anchor point right there nothing more. I don't need any of the other anchor points.…
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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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