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Smooth points and control handles

Smooth points and control handles - Photoshop Tutorial

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Smooth points and control handles

I have saved my progress as Four- point template inside of the 2 _pen_tool folder, and in this exercise we are going to take this ellipse and notice I have restored an elliptical shape here, I just went ahead and back stepped a little bit. We are going to take this ellipse and we are going to modify using the White Arrow tool and only the White Arrow tool - we're not going to need the Pen tool for this project - In order to precisely or at least as precisely as possible fit the outline of this water drop. Now you may wonder why in the world I am calling this Four-point template. Well that's because there is a little bit of a cheat layer that I have included along with this file it's called points & handles and if you turn it on it shows you exactly where the points and handles ought to be located. If you ever want to see all of the points and handles at once let me go ahead and switch over to the Isolated drop.psd image, this is where I got those points and handles from. I will click…

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