From the course: Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Custom aligning strokes to paths - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Custom aligning strokes to paths
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- [Instructor] All right, now one of the great things about variable width, especially the fact that you can adjust strokes asymmetrically, is that it gives you a new control over the way that you align the stroke to the path outline, that goes well beyond this Align Stroke function that we saw a few movies back. And it's just as applicable to open path outlines as closed ones. So let's say for example that I press the "a" key to switch to the white arrow tool, and I click on this upper right segment associated with this ellipse here, and notice over here in the Stroke panel how the stroke is currently aligned to the outside of this path outline. And so I'll go ahead and click on this segment and then shift-click on this one and shift-click on this one, so that the upper right segments are selected in each one of the ellipses. And then I'll press the Backspace key, and I lose that alignment. Illustrator goes ahead…
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Contents
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A first look at Illustrator1m 9s
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Opening from the Windows desktop7m 35s
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Opening from the Macintosh Finder8m 6s
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Introducing the Home screen6m 23s
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Creating a new document7m 8s
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The units of design: Points and picas7m 32s
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The advanced document settings6m 43s
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Activate missing fonts3m 7s
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Modifying your new document8m 52s
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Saving Illustrator artwork7m 17s
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Closing open documents on the PC4m 36s
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Closing open documents on the Mac6m 28s
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Pages of any size, at any angle1m 10s
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Using the artboard tool11m 10s
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Undo, Redo, and Revert3m 21s
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Selecting multiple artboards8m 14s
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Creating and duplicating artboards8m 17s
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Five ways to resize artboards8m 11s
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Introducing the Artboards panel6m 6s
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Navigating between artboards5m 43s
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Aligning and distributing artboards7m 12s
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Automatically tidying up your artboards7m 50s
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Artboards and rulers7m 26s
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Getting around your artwork59s
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Zooming in and out8m 9s
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Using the more precise Zoom tool6m 22s
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Zooming on a selection2m 23s
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GPU Performance and Animated Zoom8m 11s
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Scrolling or panning a document4m 5s
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Specifying a custom zoom level4m 18s
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Working with multiple open documents5m 49s
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Customizing your panels—important9m 36s
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Saving your custom panels as a workspace2m 26s
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Cycling between screen modes6m 32s
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Trim View and Presentation Mode4m 7s
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It’s time to draw1m 10s
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Guidelines and center guides7m 38s
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Positioning guides numerically4m 51s
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Using the Line Segment tool6m 5s
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Working with and without the bounding box6m 21s
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Moving and duplicating objects7m 44s
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Select Similar and Global Edit3m 15s
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Introducing the Scissors tool4m 4s
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Joining your line segments6m 41s
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Introducing the Eyedropper tool3m 11s
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Using the Arc tool8m 28s
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Using the Spiral tool7m 11s
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Using the Polar Grid tool8m 11s
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Duplicating and scaling spirals7m 5s
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Using the Rectangular Grid tool4m 56s
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Auto-blending fill colors6m 12s
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A preview of shape building5m 34s
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And now, we draw better1m 40s
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Creating a time-saving template5m 18s
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Using the Ellipse tool7m 43s
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Live ellipses and pies4m 44s
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Drawing two perfectly aligned circles8m 22s
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Creating compound paths7m 1s
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Using the Rectangle tool5m 40s
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The dynamic round corner controls7m 39s
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Adding some simple reflections7m 50s
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Rotating your artwork into position6m 19s
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Using the Polygon and Star tools6m 8s
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Working with live polygons7m 1s
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Creating the perfect five-pointed star6m 10s
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Repeating stars in alternating rows6m 23s
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Introducing the group Isolation mode7m 12s
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Adding a drop shadow to a layer2m 54s
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Using the crazy Flare tool6m 19s
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The top-secret tilde key trick3m 53s
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How color works2m 27s
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The color modes: RGB versus CMYK8m 7s
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Hue, saturation, and brightness4m 56s
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Selecting a color from the spectrum5m
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Creating and applying swatches7m 57s
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Working with global swatches7m 9s
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Searching swatches by name5m 1s
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Auto-deleting and adding swatches4m 43s
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Using the Eyedropper tool5m 8s
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Loading swatches from another document4m 18s
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The rich world of strokes1m 3s
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Adjusting the line weight4m 55s
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How strokes align to path outlines6m 45s
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Caps, joins, and miter limit6m 25s
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Making practical use of caps and joins6m 7s
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Dashes and arrowheads7m 24s
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Variable-width strokes5m 58s
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Numerically adjusting width points5m 25s
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Custom aligning strokes to paths3m 21s
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Creating a custom width profile7m
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Creating a classic round-dotted outline3m 25s
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Drawing a quick-and-dirty gear7m 6s
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Combining multiple strokes4m 18s
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Offsetting strokes to simulate depth6m 8s
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Text at its best2m 9s
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Placing and flowing text5m 48s
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Converting between area and point type3m 46s
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Modifying the text frame4m 57s
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Creating custom margins guides3m 55s
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Changing the font and type style5m 6s
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Introducing variable fonts4m 7s
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Paragraph alignment3m 26s
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Type size and leading8m
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Dialing in custom variable styles6m 28s
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Creating your own custom italics2m 28s
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Kerning characters of type5m 53s
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Roman Hanging Punctuation3m 24s
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Filling and stroking text2m 18s
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Join and the Shape Builder tool1m 23s
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Using the Join command6m 27s
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Using the Join tool4m 43s
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Object > Path > Outline Stroke3m 43s
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Using the Shape Builder tool5m 4s
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More ways to use the Shape Builder6m 20s
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Creating a real-world project6m 23s
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Creating an inset reflection6m 32s
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Coloring a path with the Shape Builder5m 31s
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Sculpting with variable-width strokes4m 42s
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Converting text to path outlines7m 29s
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Gap detection and path splitting6m 24s
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Drawing with the Shaper tool5m 31s
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Combining paths with the Shaper tool8m 20s
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Editing paths inside a Shaper group6m 50s
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Freeform drawing at its best1m 24s
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Drawing freeform path outlines5m 12s
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The Smooth tool and Path Eraser tool4m 4s
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Extending and connecting paths3m 23s
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Drawing straight and perpendicular lines3m 26s
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Creating a tracing template3m 28s
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Combining the Pencil with a drawing tablet7m 21s
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Coloring your Pencil tool art6m 28s
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The best tools for painting1m 27s
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Painting with the Blob Brush tool6m 57s
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Fusing path outlines together6m 5s
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Blob Brush size and strategies5m 54s
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Introducing the Eraser tool8m 31s
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Reassigning keyboard shortcuts3m 51s
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Painting background paths5m 53s
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Erasing all kinds of paths6m 49s
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Erasing and smoothing lumps6m 15s
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The Blob Brush and the opacity value5m 50s
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Painting with a drawing tablet6m 42s
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Using the Simplify command6m 7s
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Drawing a path one point at a time1m 41s
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Drawing with the Curvature tool3m 49s
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Working with smooth and corner points4m 41s
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Creating and editing open path outlines6m 15s
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Tracing a photographic detail6m 35s
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Adding a basic textured fill3m 4s
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Shape-building a castle wall8m 21s
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A first look at gradients7m 1s
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Editing a shape with the Curvature tool5m 16s
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A first look at object blends7m 31s
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Duplicating and scaling a complex object4m 2s
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Drawing a custom letterform4m 32s
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Creating a rippling line segment6m 9s
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Adding a piece of vector-based clipart3m 23s
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The tool that can drawing anything2m 15s
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Creating corner points4m 16s
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Adding and deleting anchor points5m 28s
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How smooth points work7m 8s
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Drawing smooth points8m 14s
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Drawing cusp points9m 17s
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Using the Anchor point tools5m 43s
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Real-world drawing with the Pen tool11m 53s
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Drawing a very complex path outline7m 3s
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Copying and repurpose path segments5m 28s
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Drawing a lot with very few points10m
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Creating dimension with shadows8m 54s
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Shading the eye, ear, and nose8m 47s
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Drawing smoothly waving path outlines7m 40s
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Making corners smooth1m 7s
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The round corner widget3m 44s
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Rounding off corner points4m 54s
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Changing the corner type3m 37s
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Rounding characters of type6m 15s
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Absolute versus relative rounding7m 27s
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Drawing with rounded rectangles6m 2s
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Drawing an iPhone9m
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Decorating an iPhone screen7m 14s
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Drawing a leather smartphone case7m 7s
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Colorizing a line art template3m 52s
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Turning corners into organic curves6m 50s
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Reshaping rounded paths9m 40s
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Saving for devices and the web1m 49s
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Aligning objects to the pixel grid4m 58s
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Aligning objects as you draw or modify them7m 51s
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Aligning text to the pixel grid5m 12s
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Introducing the Save for Web command6m 36s
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Scaling your art to suit its destination6m 21s
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For devices and presentations, use PNG5m 6s
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Saving an 8-bit graphic6m 33s
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Saving a JPEG image5m 10s
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Saving vector-based SVG files3m 48s
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Assigning a copyright3m 7s
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Using the Export for Screens command5m 57s
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Using the Asset Export panel5m 27s
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Asset export time-saving tricks2m 39s
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