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Working with smooth and corner points

Working with smooth and corner points - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Working with smooth and corner points

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- In this movie, I'll take you on a tour of smooth and corner points inside of Illustrator, both of which you can create using the Curvature tool. So for example, if I were to click four times with the Curvature tool here, in a kind of elliptical pattern, then I would create a somewhat elliptical shape, as we're seeing right here. If I'm not happy with that shape then I can move one or more points around. Each of these points, by the way, is known as a smooth point. That's because the segments continue through the point in a smooth, continuous arc. One of the great things about the Curvature tool is that it allows you to create ellipses at angles, as we're seeing right here, as opposed to having to first draw them with the Ellipse tool, and then rotate them into the proper position. But ultimately we're getting a very similar effect to the Ellipse tool by laying down four smooth points, which is exactly what the Ellipse tool does. Another thing that you can built out of smooth points…

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