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Reconstructing and editing

Reconstructing and editing - Illustrator Tutorial

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Reconstructing and editing

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There are a couple of important editing and reconstructing features in Illustrator that might come up in the exam so let me walk you through these. First of all you need to know where you can find the option to remove stray points. Stray points we mean by any anchor points that are just simply added on their own and are not connected to anything else these usually don't have any visibility so to remove these you would want to go to the select menu and then object and then choose stray points. So once you click on this in this document I have four of these points so there's one there, one there, one up there and one here they are invisible but it would be important to delete these so I'm just going to press delete on the keyboard. This is a good practice to get used to Whenever you finalize your artwork you should run this feature and make sure that there are no stray points included. If you have two parts that you wish to join together like in this case this one and this all you have…

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