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- [Deke McClelland] In this movie,

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I'll demonstrate how to work with

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the one remaining transform tool,

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which is the reshape tool.

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Now, it's not nearly as
old as the other tools.

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In other words,

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I want to say it showed
up in Illustrator 6.

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And it doesn't work anything
like the other tools.

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You can't bring up a
dialogue box, for example.

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But it is grouped with those tools.

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So notice if I were to click and hold

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on the scale tool right here,

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we would see the reshape tool

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at the bottom of the flyout menu.

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Now, I used to demonstrate
this tool with spirals,

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because it can help you
fix a broken spiral.

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So lets say for example,

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I want to simulate one of these swirls.

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Then I'll just go ahead and click and hold

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on the line segment tool

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and I'll select the spiral
tool from the flyout menu.

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And then I'll just go ahead

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and draw a spiral like so,

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and lets say I want it to curve in

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on itself a little more quickly,

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then I would press and hold

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the control key or the
command key on a Mac

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in order to adjust the spiral's
so-called decay on the fly.

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And I might end up with
this effect right here.

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And I might move this
over a little bit as well

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by pressing shift right arrow.

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Okay, so lets say I want to
lift some of these colors here.

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I'll press the i key to
switch to the eyedropper

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and I'll just click on this guy

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and that's going to assign
a fill instead of a stroke

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so I'll press shift x in order
to swap the fill and stroke.

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I'll take the line wave value
up to four points lets say,

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and then I'll click on a word stroke

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and change the cap to a round cap.

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Alright, having done that,

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lets say I'm not quite
happy with this spiral.

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I want to make some adjustments.

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Well, if I were to
switch to the scale tool,

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and click right here for example

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in order to set an origin point,

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and then drag around,

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I could squish this spiral,

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or I could squeeze it or what have you,

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I could even scale it proportionally

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if I were to press and hold the shift key.

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But that's not really what I want to do.

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I just want to demonstrate
the difference here

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between the scale tool
and the reshape tool.

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So for starters,

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if I were to press the enter key

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or the return key on the Mac

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with this tool selected,

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I don't get any dialogue box.

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And that's because it
really doesn't lend itself

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to numerical precision.

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And it also doesn't include
a transformation origin.

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Instead, where spirals are concerned,

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you just go ahead and
drag one of the end points

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and notice how you can
now stretch the shape

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in a way that isn't accommodated
by any of the other tools.

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So you can really customize the heck

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out of that spiral if you want to.

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You can also drag on an interior point

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although that tends to be less successful.

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And that's what you decide
to do is click to set a point

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and then select that point
with the wide arrow tool

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and so for example,

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if I were to press and
hold the control key,

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or the command key on the Mac,

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I'm going to get my last used arrow tool

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which is the black arrow.

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If I want to switch to the
white arrow on the fly instead,

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then here on the PC I
would press control tilde.

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So I just keep that control
key down and add tilde

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and then still with the control key down,

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I now have the white arrow tool instead.

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On the Mac you would keep
your command key down

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and then you would also
press option with tab.

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So command option tab is going to

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switch you back and
forth between the tools.

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Then, just go ahead with the
control or command key down,

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go ahead and click on one of
those points to select them.

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And then if you release,

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in order to switch back to
the reshape tool and you drag,

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notice you're going to move that point

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independently of the other ones.

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So you may or may not find that helpful.

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But a couple years ago,

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Mordy Golding who works here at lynda.com,

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he used to be a product
manager at Illustrator

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during the time when
this tool was introduced.

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And he took me aside and basically told me

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this is not the intention
of the tool at all.

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Even though it does this kind of stuff.

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That's not why it was designed.

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Instead, it's designed to basically

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add curvature to a straight segment.

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So what I'm going to do is
press the backspace key,

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that would be the delete key on the Mac,

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a couple of times to
get rid of that spiral.

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And I'll go ahead and scroll
over to this text right here,

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and lets say I want to
give it a wavy underline.

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Then I'd start things out

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by selecting the line segment tool,

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and then I'll just go ahead

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and draw a straight line like so,

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all the way past the d,

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and I'm pressing the shift key as I drag

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to make sure that my line
is perfectly horizontal.

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And I'm going to color this
line just like the text,

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so I'll press the i key to
switch to the eyedropper tool,

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and then I'll just click
inside one of these letters

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that's been converted to a path outline,

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and because I now have
a fill with no stroke

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I'm not seeing the line,

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so I'll press shift x in order

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to swap the fill and the stroke.

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Alright I'm happy with
the one point line weight,

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but I'm going to go ahead and
give this guy a round cap.

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Alright now lets say I
want to add some curvature,

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then one way to pull this off

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is to go ahead and switch
back to the reshape tool

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and then click in order to
add a point in that line.

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And now with that point selected

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I can go ahead and drag it up

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in order to bend that
formerly straight segment.

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And if I want to add
another point right there

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then I would go ahead
and click to select it,

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now if I drag down at this point

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I'm going to move the
other point along with

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because they're both selected
as we're seeing here.

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If I want to move this point independently

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then I would press control z

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or command z on the Mac to undo that move.

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Then I would press and
hold the control key

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or the command key on a Mac.

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To get that white arrow on the fly

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I click on that point to select it,

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and then I'd release the
control or command key

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in order to switch back
to the reshape tool

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and I'd go ahead and drag this point down

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independently of the others.

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And I can do the same
thing with an endpoint

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if I like in order to
produce this effect here

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and then I can just sit here

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and move these guys
around as much as I like.

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Alright now lets say I want to

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give this line a tapering stroke.

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Then I would go ahead and
switch to the width tool,

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which is located directly
below the reshape tool.

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And I might go ahead and
double click right about here

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in order to add a width point,

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and I'll set the total width
value to six and click okay,

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and then I'll add another one

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lets say right about
here by doubling clicking

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and then I'll change its
total width value to six

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and click okay as well.

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And that way we get this
nicely tapering line.

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Alright but here's where
I'm critical of the tool.

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Notice if I switch back
to my wide arrow tool

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which of course I can
get by pressing the a key

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and I were to click on this
anchor point right here,

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notice that the segment
only has one control handle,

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it's this guy right here.

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So we don't have a control handle

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coming out of the endpoint.

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So that can end up making
for some flat curvature

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right there at the endpoints.

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Even worse however,

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notice this point right there

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that looks like a smooth point,

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it's not a smooth point.

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It's actually a cusp point.

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And that is always going to be the case

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when you're adding points
with the reshape tool.

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If you don't want that to be the case

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then go ahead and undo the movement

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of those control handles,

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select that anchor point,

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and then click on this
convert to smooth point icon

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up here in the control panel.

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After which point I should be able

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to move one control handle

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and have the other one
move along with, like so.

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But for my money,

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the better way to work is to use that tool

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that we first saw back in chapter 12

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of the Fundamentals
course, the curvature tool.

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But first I want to delete
those points I just added

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so I'm going to switch to the pen tool

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which you can get by pressing the p key,

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note that your cursor may be black

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but it's still the same tool.

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And then I'm going to click

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on this anchor point right
here to get rid of it.

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And I'll click on this guy
to get rid of it as well,

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and the result is that we once
again have a straight line.

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Now, if I really want to add curvature

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just the easiest way possible,

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then I'm going to switch
to the curvature tool

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which is a much newer
tool than a reshape tool

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and it works a lot better as well.

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So notice I'll just go
ahead set a point there,

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by clicking on a segment

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and then I'll drag it up
to add some curvature.

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Then I'll click here to add another point

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and I'll drag it down to add curvature

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and now let me show you the difference.

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If I press the a key in order

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to switch to the wide arrow tool,

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and I click on this
anchor point right there,

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it has a control handle.

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And so we now have two control handles

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devoted to this segment.

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Just as we should.

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And if I were to drag this
control handle right there,

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the opposite control handle would move

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indicating that we have
a bonafide smooth point.

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Alright I'm just going to go ahead

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and put that guy back
by pressing control z

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or command z on a Mac,

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because I'm pretty happy with what I have.

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And then I'll just go ahead and click

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off the path outline to deselect it

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and you know what,

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I'm going to turn off
the guidelines as well.

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And that friends,

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for better or for worse,

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is how you work with what I consider to be

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the screwiest of the transformation tools

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which is the reshape tool

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here inside Illustrator.

