From the course: Illustrator: Digitizing Hand Lettering
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Using the Smooth tool and Pen tool
From the course: Illustrator: Digitizing Hand Lettering
Using the Smooth tool and Pen tool
(gentle music) - [Instructor] In this lesson, I'm going to pick up right where I left off, and also show you some new tools that you can introduce into your digitizing process to really perfect the edges around your letters to take them from being really rough and bumpy and make them really smooth and have a much more professional look. Specifically, I'm going to be focusing on these three because I've pretty much achieved the look I wanted from these two. And I'm just going to move them off the art board, just grab them both and then move them out of the way, and then we can kind of bring these to where they will be more accessible and we can really focus on them. Going to start this lesson by focusing specifically on Brush to introduce you and get you comfortable with this Smooth Tool, which is an amazing tool inside of Illustrator, and I use it all the time, and it is a game changer once you learn about this tool. Also, I see we have a straggler here, and I think that is supposed…
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