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Reshaping rounded paths

Reshaping rounded paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Reshaping rounded paths

- [Instructor] All right, now I'll cover a few different ways that you can reshape path outlines that contain rounded corners using the conventional White Arrow tool, and some challenges you might encounter along the way. And so notice this edge along the front of the dinosaur's face. It doesn't really match the blue stroke in the background, and so I'm going to marquee these two points using the White Arrow tool, and I'll just go ahead and nudge those points forward by pressing the right arrow key, and we get a little bit of a better match. The same is true with these anchor points right here, and so I'll go ahead and select them. I want you to see how we do have a round corner widget and how we have a thick edge along that segment, which tells us, once again, that we're maxed out. But as soon as I nudge these points into a different location, I lose the round corner widget. And that's because, for whatever reason,…

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