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Using the dedicated Mesh tool

Using the dedicated Mesh tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the dedicated Mesh tool

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to work, with the dedicated mesh tool. All right, so I've gone ahead and restored the saved version of my artwork. So, to get back to where I was, I'll go up to the view menu and choose the diagram command. And then I'll turn off the diagram layer, here inside the layers panel. And I'll go ahead and click on my object to select it. All right, so we've seen how you can modify individual mesh points, using the white arrow tool. So I'll just go ahead and click on one and drag it around here. All right, but let's say, I want to go ahead, and move this anchor point, along a consistent column line or a consistent roll line. In that case, I'll go ahead and undo that movement, and I'll zoom in as well. So I can better see what I'm doing, and I'll drop down to the mesh tool, which looks like a little mesh, and it has a keyboard shortcut of u. And now notice that I can drag these…

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