Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating cusps by subtracting shapes, part of Learning the Adobe Pen Tool.
- Alright, in a previous movie, we saw how you can…create Cusp Points by deleting a single, smooth point…from a circle and then joining the remaining…end points with a straight segment.…In this movie, I'll show you another way…to make cusp points, and that's by subtracting…one collection of shapes from another.…And what this will allow us to do is create…these six sections right here,…inside of our stylized orange slice.…So, the first thing I'm going to do is…once again, grab my Ellipse Tool and then,…rather than dragging from the intersection…of these two guides right there,…I want to create a new shape by the numbers.…
So, in other words, I want to bring up a dialog box…and I want to center that shape at this…exact location, right there.…And to do that, you press the Alt key…or the Option key on a Mac, and in this case,…that, make sure that you're centering the shape…and then you click.…So, by Alt-clicking or Option-clicking on a Mac,…you bring up the Ellipse dialog box…and then you can dial in any values you like.…
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8/3/2015- Understanding how anchor points, segments, and control handles work
- Adding and deleting anchor points
- Working with smooth and cusp points
- Selecting and deselecting with the arrow tools
- Drawing vector-based paths
- Connecting open paths
- Repositioning points and segments as you draw
- Inserting and deleting points on the fly
- Converting multiple points with a single click
Skill Level Beginner
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1. The Building Blocks of Path Outlines
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Until next time1m 8s
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