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- In this movie, I'll show
you how to round the corners

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of any shape that contains corner points,

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regardless of how you draw it.

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So, as you can see here, I've given

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my rounded rectangle a little bit

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of a thicker stroke just
for the sake of appearance.

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But now I'm going to go
ahead and click on it

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with my black arrow tool and I'll press

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the Backspace key or
the Delete key on a Mac

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to get rid of it.

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And now I'll go ahead
and select the pen tool,

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which, of course, I can get
by pressing the "p" key.

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And I'm going to draw a zigzag shape.

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Now, if you're working along with me,

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I recommend that you don't
draw the shape too quickly

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because what happens often
times when you just start

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click, click, clicking all over the place,

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is that you accidentally drag

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and you create a very tiny smooth point

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as a result.

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Anyway, I've just gone ahead and created

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a few zigzags here and then I'll go ahead

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and press the "a" key in order to switch

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to my white arrow tool.

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Now, for a very long time,
you've been able to take

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zigzag shapes like this
and turn them into loops

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just by alt or option clicking
with the white arrow tool

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on that path out line.

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And then what you want
to do is Shift click

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on one of the end points
in order to deselect it.

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And so long as at least one
point in the path out line

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is not selected, you'll see
these convert icons right here,

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which allow you to convert smooth points

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into corner points or
convert corner points

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into smooth points.

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And notice as soon as I
click on the second icon,

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I get this wonderful looping shape

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that would've taken a
lot more effort to draw.

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And then to make this last endpoint

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a smooth point as well, I'll
go ahead and click on it

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to select it and then click
on this smooth points icon

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in order to get this affect right here.

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So, that's one way to work.

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I'll go ahead and press Control + Z

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or Command + Z on the
Mac to undo that change.

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Another way to work now,
and it's going to give us

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very different results, is
to round off the corners

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by dragging on these round corner widgets,

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which will show up at each
and every corner point,

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except for the end points
in an open path outline.

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And now notice if I go ahead
and drag one of these widgets,

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I'm going to round off
the corners like so.

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And you also have the option, of course,

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of just rounding off some corners.

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So, for example, let's say I
marque these corners right here

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and drag back outward,
then I'm going to make them

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less round, as we're seeing here.

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All right, but things
get even more interesting

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when we start with a
more interesting shape.

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So I'm going to go ahead
and press the Backspace key,

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or the Delete key on the
Mac, a couple of times

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to get rid of that path.

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And I'm going to drop down
to the shape tool icon

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right here.

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Click and hold on it and
choose the star tool.

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And then I'll go ahead and
click at the intersection

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of my two center guides
in order to bring up

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the star dialogue box and
I came up with these values

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right here.

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That is, I want to set the
first radius value to 300 points

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and the second one to 80
points and I'm looking for

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a total of 10 star points.

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And now I'll go ahead and
click OK in order to create

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this path outline.

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The line weight's a little thick,

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so I'll go ahead and take
it down to four points,

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let's say, and then I'll
change the fill by clicking

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on this first color swatch
up in the control panel

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and selecting this shade of orange,

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which is R251G176B59,

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but obviously, you can go your own way.

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All right, now I'll press the Escape key

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to hide that panel and I'll
click on the word Transform

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or on the X, Y, W, or H

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on the right side of the control panel.

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And I'm going to dial in a
rotate value of 18 degrees,

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which happens to give me
this effect right here

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as soon as I press the Tab key.

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All right, now I'll go ahead
and press the Escape key

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in order to hide that
panel and I'll switch

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to the white arrow tool
by pressing the "a" key.

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And you can see that we
now have all of these

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corner widgets here and
so, if I drag outward

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from one of the interior points,

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then I will increase the
roundness of the corners.

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I'd have to drag inward from
one of these exterior points

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to increase the roundness
or I can drag back outward

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to achieve these nice, sharp points.

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All right, but what I want to do

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is just round the interior corners

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and so, I'll go ahead and
marque the inside points

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in order to select them
independently of the outside points.

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And now notice that I could
convert them to smooth points

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if I want to by clicking
on the smooth points icon

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up here in the control panel
and I'd end up with this.

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Pretty interesting effect, actually.

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It's not what I want however,
so I'll go ahead and press

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Control + Z or Command + Z on
the Mac to undo that change.

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And I'll drag down from this top point

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until it snaps into alignment
with the center guides.

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And then I'll go ahead and drag upward

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on this corner widget right here

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in order to achieve this effect,

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which is unlike anything
we've really been able to do

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in Illustrator in the past.

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And if that's not quite
what you're looking for,

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then you can change this corner's value

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up here in the control panel.

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And I'm just going to
change it to 36 points

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and press the Enter key,
or Return key on a Mac,

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to apply that change.

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And that's how you round the corner points

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associated with any path out line,

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regardless of how you draw it,

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using the white arrow tool combined with

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the round corner widgets,
here inside Illustrator CC.