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- [Male Instructor] In this movie

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I'll show you how to extend
and connect open path outlines

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regardless of what tool was used

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to draw them in the first
place, using the pencil tool.

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I'll start by selecting the pencil tool

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either from this free-floating toolbar

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or from the standard vertical toolbox.

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Then I'll press the D key
which establishes my default,

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fill, and stroke settings.

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It gives me a one point
line weight as well.

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I'm going to take that line weight up

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just a little bit to two points.

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I'll click on the word stroke here

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and turn on both round cap and round join.

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Now I'll press the escape
key to hide that panel.

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I'll begin drawing some frills

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around the outside of this heart.

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Some of them are turning out
to be a little bit lumpy,

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it looks like, but I'm
hoping that they smooth out

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by the time I'm done.

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Sure enough I do have
quite the lump there.

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So I'm going to try to redraw this section

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just a little bit like so.

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As you can see here that ended up

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killing the better part
of the path outline.

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If that happens to you,
just press control Z,

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or command Z on the Mac, and
try drawing that section again.

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Sometimes you just need
to go the other direction

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or draw a smaller line.

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Now notice that the
path outline is selected

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and so if I move my cursor away,

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I'm going to see a little
asterisk next to the pencil.

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But if I move my cursor near
to the open path outline,

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I see a little diagonal
line which tells me

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that I'm going to extend
that selected path like so.

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That is a function of a couple of settings

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in that pencil tool options dialogue box.

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I'll go ahead and press the enter key,

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or the return key on the Mac,

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to open the dialogue box on-screen.

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Notice this checkbox right
there keeps selected.

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You most likely want to leave that on

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because that way the last path outline you

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drew remains selected.

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But you can turn it off; it is an option.

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Then notice that you
can edit selected paths

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as long as you drag within
six screen pixels from them.

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Again, you can turn that off

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or adjust that distance as you like.

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I'm just going to go ahead and click OK

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to dismiss the dialogue box.

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Let's say that I just want to

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extend things a little farther up and over

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in this direction to, let's
say right about there.

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Or I may just decide to draw a
completely different section.

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You can see, even though
the other path outline

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is selected because I did not
drag sufficiently close to it

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I'm seeing an asterisk next to my cursor.

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At which point I'll go ahead and release

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in order to create an
independent open path.

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Let's say you want to connect
two open paths together.

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Then press and hold the control key,

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or the command key on the Mac,

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to get the last used arrow tool,

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which in my case is the black arrow,

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and then add the shift key
and click on this path.

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In other words, I'm
control shift clicking here

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on the PC, that's a command
shift click on the Mac,

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and what that allows me to do is select

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that other open path.

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Then you just drag from it's end point

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to the other path's end point.

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You'll see that slash
next to the cursor again

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and you'll join what were
formally two open paths into one.

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Now I'll go ahead and finish things off

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by dragging from this end point

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and then finally releasing
on the other end point

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in order to close the
path outline like so.

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That, friends, is how you extend

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and connect open path outlines
using the pencil tool.