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Reshaping rounded paths

Reshaping rounded paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Reshaping rounded paths

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- [Instructor] All right, in this movie, we're going to finish off the artwork, first, by reshaping a few lumpy path outlines using some conventional white arrow techniques and then by assigning some colorful fills. All right, so one of the paths that bugs me is this spot right here, even though I said we don't have to worry too much about it, it's just a big lump, it's looking a little bit too lumpy to me, so I'll go ahead and press the A key to switch to my white arrow tool, and then I'll click right there and the culprit is this little bit of straight segment. I don't want that, so having selecting the segment by clicking on it, I'll press the backspace key, or the delete key on the Mac to get rid of it. And then I'll select this anchor point and drag it until it snaps into alignment with the other one and then I'll marquee both of these guys and what I want to do is join them into a smooth point and the best way to…

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