Moving, deleting, and adding anchor points

In this movie, I'll show you how to edit an…existing path outline by dragging and nudging points to different locations.…As well as deleting anchor points and adding new ones.…Now your primary method for editing path outlines are your arrow tools.…So if I click and hold on this black arrow, we've got the path selection tool.…Which selects entire paths, I call it the…black arrow tool because that's what it looks like.…We've got the direct selection…tool which allows you to select and modify independent anchor points, I…call it the white arrow tool because that's what it looks like.…

Particularly after you select the tool, you can…see the cursor appears as a white arrow.…And even Adobe thinks of them as being the arrow tools, because…it went ahead and assigned the keyboard shortcut of A for arrow.…So you can press the A key to select whichever…is the last arrow tool you used, or you can switch…between the two arrow tools by pressing Shift-A, as you can see here.…So Shift-A switches me to the White Arrow tool, and…