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Simplifying paths

Simplifying paths

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Simplifying paths

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In the process of combining shapes and outlining paths, anchor points are often added that lead to shapes being needlessly complex. Before exporting your artwork, you should always attempt to make the artwork as simple as possible. To kind of illustrate that, I've opened up the chunky mobile file found in the 03_09 directory, and I'm focusing on the third art board, so the art board in the lower left hand corner. And the layer that I'm currently focused on is the glyph three layer, and I'm focused on the power icon, which is the one we're looking at right now. Okay, so if I grab the selection tool, and I click on that power icon. I can see that even though it's a relatively simple shape, it has a lot of extraneous nodes. You know, for a curve like this to be described you really only need about four points. So having all those individual points on there isn't really ideal. There are a lot of reasons that something like this can happen and usually, it's more because I've taken a stroke…

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