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- [Deke McClelland] In this movie,



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I'll demonstrate how to work with



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the one remaining transform tool,



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which is the reshape tool.



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Now, it's not nearly as

old as the other tools.



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In other words,



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I want to say it showed

up in Illustrator 6.



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And it doesn't work anything

like the other tools.



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You can't bring up a

dialogue box, for example.



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But it is grouped with those tools.



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So notice if I were to click and hold



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on the scale tool right here,



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we would see the reshape tool



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at the bottom of the flyout menu.



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Now, I used to demonstrate

this tool with spirals,



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because it can help you

fix a broken spiral.



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So lets say for example,



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I want to simulate one of these swirls.



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Then I'll just go ahead and click and hold



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on the line segment tool



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and I'll select the spiral

tool from the flyout menu.



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And then I'll just go ahead



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and draw a spiral like so,



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and lets say I want it to curve in



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on itself a little more quickly,



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then I would press and hold



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the control key or the

command key on a Mac



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in order to adjust the spiral's

so-called decay on the fly.



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And I might end up with

this effect right here.



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And I might move this

over a little bit as well



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by pressing shift right arrow.



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Okay, so lets say I want to

lift some of these colors here.



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I'll press the i key to

switch to the eyedropper



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and I'll just click on this guy



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and that's going to assign

a fill instead of a stroke



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so I'll press shift x in order

to swap the fill and stroke.



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I'll take the line wave value

up to four points lets say,



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and then I'll click on a word stroke



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and change the cap to a round cap.



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Alright, having done that,



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lets say I'm not quite

happy with this spiral.



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I want to make some adjustments.



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Well, if I were to

switch to the scale tool,



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and click right here for example



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in order to set an origin point,



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and then drag around,



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I could squish this spiral,



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or I could squeeze it or what have you,



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I could even scale it proportionally



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if I were to press and hold the shift key.



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But that's not really what I want to do.



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I just want to demonstrate

the difference here



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between the scale tool

and the reshape tool.



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So for starters,



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if I were to press the enter key



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or the return key on the Mac



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with this tool selected,



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I don't get any dialogue box.



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And that's because it

really doesn't lend itself



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to numerical precision.



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And it also doesn't include

a transformation origin.



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Instead, where spirals are concerned,



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you just go ahead and

drag one of the end points



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and notice how you can

now stretch the shape



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in a way that isn't accommodated

by any of the other tools.



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So you can really customize the heck



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out of that spiral if you want to.



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You can also drag on an interior point



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although that tends to be less successful.



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And that's what you decide

to do is click to set a point



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and then select that point

with the wide arrow tool



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and so for example,



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if I were to press and

hold the control key,



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or the command key on the Mac,



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I'm going to get my last used arrow tool



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which is the black arrow.



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If I want to switch to the

white arrow on the fly instead,



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then here on the PC I

would press control tilde.



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So I just keep that control

key down and add tilde



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and then still with the control key down,



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I now have the white arrow tool instead.



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On the Mac you would keep

your command key down



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and then you would also

press option with tab.



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So command option tab is going to



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switch you back and

forth between the tools.



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Then, just go ahead with the

control or command key down,



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go ahead and click on one of

those points to select them.



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And then if you release,



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in order to switch back to

the reshape tool and you drag,



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notice you're going to move that point



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independently of the other ones.



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So you may or may not find that helpful.



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But a couple years ago,



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Mordy Golding who works here at lynda.com,



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he used to be a product

manager at Illustrator



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during the time when

this tool was introduced.



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And he took me aside and basically told me



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this is not the intention

of the tool at all.



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Even though it does this kind of stuff.



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That's not why it was designed.



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Instead, it's designed to basically



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add curvature to a straight segment.



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So what I'm going to do is

press the backspace key,



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that would be the delete key on the Mac,



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a couple of times to

get rid of that spiral.



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And I'll go ahead and scroll

over to this text right here,



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and lets say I want to

give it a wavy underline.



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Then I'd start things out



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by selecting the line segment tool,



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and then I'll just go ahead



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and draw a straight line like so,



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all the way past the d,



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and I'm pressing the shift key as I drag



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to make sure that my line

is perfectly horizontal.



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And I'm going to color this

line just like the text,



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so I'll press the i key to

switch to the eyedropper tool,



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and then I'll just click

inside one of these letters



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that's been converted to a path outline,



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and because I now have

a fill with no stroke



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I'm not seeing the line,



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so I'll press shift x in order



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to swap the fill and the stroke.



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Alright I'm happy with

the one point line weight,



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but I'm going to go ahead and

give this guy a round cap.



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Alright now lets say I

want to add some curvature,



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then one way to pull this off



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is to go ahead and switch

back to the reshape tool



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and then click in order to

add a point in that line.



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And now with that point selected



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I can go ahead and drag it up



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in order to bend that

formerly straight segment.



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And if I want to add

another point right there



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then I would go ahead

and click to select it,



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now if I drag down at this point



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I'm going to move the

other point along with



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because they're both selected

as we're seeing here.



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If I want to move this point independently



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then I would press control z



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or command z on the Mac to undo that move.



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Then I would press and

hold the control key



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or the command key on a Mac.



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To get that white arrow on the fly



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I click on that point to select it,



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and then I'd release the

control or command key



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in order to switch back

to the reshape tool



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and I'd go ahead and drag this point down



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independently of the others.



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And I can do the same

thing with an endpoint



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if I like in order to

produce this effect here



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and then I can just sit here



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and move these guys

around as much as I like.



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Alright now lets say I want to



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give this line a tapering stroke.



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Then I would go ahead and

switch to the width tool,



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which is located directly

below the reshape tool.



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And I might go ahead and

double click right about here



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in order to add a width point,



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and I'll set the total width

value to six and click okay,



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and then I'll add another one



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lets say right about

here by doubling clicking



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and then I'll change its

total width value to six



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and click okay as well.



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And that way we get this

nicely tapering line.



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Alright but here's where

I'm critical of the tool.



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Notice if I switch back

to my wide arrow tool



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which of course I can

get by pressing the a key



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and I were to click on this

anchor point right here,



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notice that the segment

only has one control handle,



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it's this guy right here.



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So we don't have a control handle



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coming out of the endpoint.



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So that can end up making

for some flat curvature



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right there at the endpoints.



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Even worse however,



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notice this point right there



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that looks like a smooth point,



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it's not a smooth point.



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It's actually a cusp point.



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And that is always going to be the case



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when you're adding points

with the reshape tool.



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If you don't want that to be the case



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then go ahead and undo the movement



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of those control handles,



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select that anchor point,



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and then click on this

convert to smooth point icon



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up here in the control panel.



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After which point I should be able



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to move one control handle



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and have the other one

move along with, like so.



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But for my money,



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the better way to work is to use that tool



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that we first saw back in chapter 12



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of the Fundamentals

course, the curvature tool.



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But first I want to delete

those points I just added



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so I'm going to switch to the pen tool



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which you can get by pressing the p key,



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note that your cursor may be black



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but it's still the same tool.



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And then I'm going to click



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on this anchor point right

here to get rid of it.



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And I'll click on this guy

to get rid of it as well,



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and the result is that we once

again have a straight line.



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Now, if I really want to add curvature



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just the easiest way possible,



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then I'm going to switch

to the curvature tool



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which is a much newer

tool than a reshape tool



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and it works a lot better as well.



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So notice I'll just go

ahead set a point there,



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by clicking on a segment



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and then I'll drag it up

to add some curvature.



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Then I'll click here to add another point



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and I'll drag it down to add curvature



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and now let me show you the difference.



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If I press the a key in order



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to switch to the wide arrow tool,



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and I click on this

anchor point right there,



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it has a control handle.



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And so we now have two control handles



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devoted to this segment.



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Just as we should.



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And if I were to drag this

control handle right there,



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the opposite control handle would move



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indicating that we have

a bonafide smooth point.



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Alright I'm just going to go ahead



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and put that guy back

by pressing control z



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or command z on a Mac,



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because I'm pretty happy with what I have.



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And then I'll just go ahead and click



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off the path outline to deselect it



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and you know what,



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I'm going to turn off

the guidelines as well.



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And that friends,



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for better or for worse,



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is how you work with what I consider to be



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the screwiest of the transformation tools



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which is the reshape tool



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here inside Illustrator.