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Moving and deleting points

Moving and deleting points - Illustrator Tutorial

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Moving and deleting points

In this exercise I'm going to show you how to move, add and delete Anchor Points inside of an existing Path outline. I've gone ahead and saved my progress as Head spikes.ai, found inside the 09_ pen_tool folder, and notice that my path outline here doesn't exactly match the tracing template below. So I'm going to go ahead and zoom in so that we can see the path outline in more detail. Notice that I'm working inside the Outline mode, so that I can see my path outline without the Fill and Stroke attributes getting in the way. Also notice that a single anchor point inside of this path is selected. So when you see a filled point like this, a little filled colored square, that indicates a selected anchor point and more than one anchor point can't be selected inside of a path. These hollow squares represent the deselected anchor points. So the overall path outline is partially selected and the way it really works is that the filled anchor point, it is selected, as well as the two…

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