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Working with paths

Working with paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Working with paths

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- [Instructor] As you'd probably expect, Illustrator on the iPad has plenty of different ways to work with points. And, here is the shape that was created in the previous movie and I want to do some work on it. Well, I've double tapped on it to go into Direct Selection Mode. You could also just pick up the Direct Selection tool, it would have the same result. And, on the right hand side, the Penultimate icon going down, the three points, with the curved line going through, that's the Path Panel. And, this is where we can do things like cut a path, convert our points between corners and curves, simplify our path, which will get it to analyze it, and simplify it, we'll do that in just a moment. We've got Smart Delete and Delete. I'm going to choose the Simplify Path option and see how it does, do you know what, that's pretty good. I think that's done a really good job of doing it, but I think there's one point at least, I…

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