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How smooth points work

How smooth points work - Illustrator Tutorial

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How smooth points work

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to transition from corner points to smooth points. Now even though we saw a bunch of smooth points in the previous chapter, we didn't really see the underlying mechanics and when you're using the Pen Tool you can't help but see smooth points in all of their splendor, which is why I'm going to show you how they work. So I'm going to go ahead and rename this layer corner points, let's say, and then I'll turn it off, just so that we have a clean slate, and I'll drop down to the little page icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and I'll Alt or Option + click on it in order to force the display of the Layer Options dialog box. I'll call this guy smooth points and I'll change its color to Violet just so that we can see everything that's going on. All right, now I'm going to draw the smoothest shape there is in Illustrator and that's an ellipse. And so I'll go ahead and select the…

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