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Creating corner points

Creating corner points - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating corner points

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll how to use the pen tool to create and modify corner points. Which are anchor points that occur between straight segments. I'll start things off the way I normally do, by going up to the File menu and choosing New From Template, or you can use that shortcut of Control Shift N or Command Shift N on the Mac, and then I'll go ahead and double click on my RGB with center guides.ait file in order to bring up a blank art board. All right, now I'll go ahead and select the pen tool. Which you can get by pressing the P key, and if for some reason you're not seeing the pe tool at this location, then go ahead and click and hold on whatever tool you are seeing and select the pen tool from the top of the fly out menu. Okay now I'm going to change my fill and stroke by clicking in this first color swatch up here in the control panel, and then I'll select none, and next I'll go ahead and increase the line weight value to six points like so. All right, now very likely…

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