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Editing a shape with the Curvature tool

Editing a shape with the Curvature tool - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Editing a shape with the Curvature tool

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll create this tower, or turret, or whatever it is, and this'll give me an opportunity to show you how you can use the Curvature tool to edit a shape drawn with any other tool inside Illustrator, and so I'll go ahead and press Control + Y, or Command + Y on a Mac, to switch to the outline mode so that I can see the photographic image in the background, and then I'll grab the Rectangle tool, which you can get by pressing the M key, and I'll go ahead and press Control + 0, or Command + 0 on the Mac, to zoom out slightly farther, and I'm going to start dragging from this bottom-right point that's associated with the archway, and because my Smart Guides are turned on, I can tell that I'm snapping to that anchor point, and now I'll drag up to right about here. So I want to snap into alignment with the top of the wall, and I want to be able to trace along the right-hand edge of that turret, if…

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