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- In this movie I'll show
you how to smooth out

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and redraw certain
portions of a path outline

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with the help of a couple
of additional tools

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that live here inside the
Pencil tool flyout menu,

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including the Smooth
tool and the Path Eraser.

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The first thing I'm going
to do is press the V key

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to return to the black
arrow tool, and then I'll

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go ahead and select my
heart and I'll get rid

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of it just by pressing the Backspace key

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or the Delete key on the Mac.

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And now I'll go ahead and
switch back to the Pencil tool,

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and let's say I draw one half

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of my heart really nice

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like this and the other half

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is pretty wobbly, and I'm
making a lot of herky-jerky

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movements here, and I
finally end the path outline

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at the top.

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Well, then, I end up with
this pretty unsmooth half

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of a heart over here
on the left-hand side.

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One option for smoothing
it is to click and hold on

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the Pencil tool and then
releasing this vertical bar

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in order to create a floating
toolbar, and now I'll

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go ahead and select the
Smooth tool and I'll press

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the Enter key or the
Return key on the Mac,

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in order to bring up its
fidelity option, and I'll crank

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this widget all the way over
to Smooth and I'll click okay.

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And now what you can do is
just drag from one endpoint

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to another to show the Smooth
tool the area that you want

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to make smoother, and the
reason we're just dragging

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from one point to another
point is because of Smooth tool

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we'll go ahead and smooth out that range

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of segments in between.

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You can also, by the way,
just go ahead and drag

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along the path if you
like, or you can drag along

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the smoother outline
that you're looking for.

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Another option is to get
rid of this area altogether

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by grabbing the Path Eraser
tool and then dragging

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its hotspot, which is the
eraser portion of the cursor

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by the way, from one endpoint to another,

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and then that's just
going to delete that range

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of points in between.

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Then you can redraw them by switching back

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to the Pencil tool, which,
of course, you can get

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by pressing the N key, and
then you could just try

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to draw a better path outline in between.

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Another way to work is
to go ahead and start

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at a certain point and
then draw the better path

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outline like so, and then
end at a specific point

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in the shape, and you've
got to be very careful

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if you're going to do that,
especially when you're

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working with close path
outlines because it's easy

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to do this number where
you don't quite end things

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right and you end up
opening the path outline.

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So if what I want to
do is change the course

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of the path, then I'll go ahead and undo

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that modification and
I will once again drag

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like so from one point,

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one interior point in
the shape, to another.

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And then, I might just go
ahead and say, "All right,

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"I want this to be a
little sharper down here

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"at the bottom," and so
I'll redraw that section

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and then I'll redraw this section,

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as well, and so on.

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And that's how you smooth
out as well as redraw

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certain portions of a path
outline, using a combination

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of the Smooth tool, the Path Eraser

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and the Pencil tool, which
are all, as we've seen,

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available from the same flyout menu.