You create curves by using the PenВ tool to add anchor points where a curve changes direction, and to drag the direction points that shape the curves.Д¬urves are easier to edit and your system can display and print them faster if you draw them using as few anchor points as possible. To leave a path open, simply do one of the following: a) select a different tool, b) press the button, c) вЂ“ or -click on the artboard away from all objects, or d) choose Edit > Deselect All. To complete your path, you can either close the path or leave it вЂњopen.вЂќ To close a path, position the PenВ tool over the first anchor point you made (you should see a small loop appear next to the PenВ tool when you are positioned over the first anchor point) and click once. You can continue to make additional line segments by clicking. So you need to click at least twice in order to create a line segment. An anchor point appears wherever you click with the PenВ tool and, as we learned above, anchor points join line segments. The main thing to keep in mind when you want to draw straight segments is to not drag the mouse after you click. You can always change point types if need be.Д«.В Same point positions using smooth pointsД¬.В Same point positions combining corner and smooth pointsДonвЂ™t confuse corner and smooth pointsВ with straight and curved segments! A corner point can connect any two straight or curved segments, while a smooth point always connects two curved segments.ДЄ corner point can connect both straight segments and curved segments. You can draw a path using any combination of corner and smooth points. At a smooth point, however, path segments are connected as a continuous curve.

Paths can have two kinds of anchor pointsВ—вЂќcorner pointsвЂќ and вЂњsmooth points.вЂќ At a corner point,вЂќa path abruptly changes direction. For an open path, the starting and ending anchor points for the path are called its вЂњendpoints.вЂќ You change the overall shape of a path by editing its anchor points, and control a curve by dragging the вЂњdirection pointsвЂќ at the end of the вЂњdirection linesвЂќ that appear at anchor points.ДЄ path is either open, like an arc, or closed, like a circle.

About PathsДЄ path is made up of one or more straight or curved вЂњsegments.вЂќ The beginnings and ends of each segment are marked by вЂњanchor points,вЂќ which work like pins holding a wire in place.

(The following information was obtained from the Illustrator online help). Before you can understand the PenВ tool, you need to know what that line is: a path. Notice if you click and drag immediately, all it seems to do is make a straight line with dots at each end. It does not draw wherever you drag, like the PaintbrushВ or PencilВ tools. It allows the artist to create shapes with freeform curves, and with time and skill, most curves found in the вЂњreal worldвЂќ can be duplicated using the PenВ tool.Д«efore you start using the PenВ tool, there are some things to note in that it doesnвЂ™t work the way you think it would. The PenВ tool is probably the most powerful tool in Adobe Illustrator.

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