From the course: Illustrator 2022 Essential Training
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Improving paths - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2022 Essential Training
Improving paths
- [Instructor] Let's check out some associated tools that we can use when we're working with paths and specifically with hand drawn paths, such as this one. If we go ahead and long press on the pencil tool in the toolbox, we'll find there's something here called the smooth tool, and that allows us to stroke over selected path. So if I just go ahead and select this path, I can do that by holding down the command key, that would be control on windows, and clicking on the path to temporarily access the selection tool. I can then if I just zoom in on part of this, so it's easier for you to see, brush across parts of that path and smooth them out. If I just now pan a little bit and move across, like so. You can see that it's doing a pretty good job. I think I accidentally deselected that of smoothing out that path, or just go back to the main view. Now, if we go back to the pencil tool, if I just tap N there for the pencil…
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