12-7 planning Strokes

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One prerequisite to keep in mind is that the fewer anchor points the better.

When drawing a path, try to use as few anchor points as possible, and if you find that you cannot control it accurately in later revisions, you can add new anchor points between existing anchor points for enhanced control. The new anchor point should be located in the middle of the original two points, so that the new anchor point of two direction line length similar to the large gap will not occur.

If you want to maintain a smooth curve at the anchor point, then the two direction line of the anchor point should be in the horizontal angle, otherwise the curve will appear sharp angle, the two are also known as smooth point and corner point

Now let's summarize the use points of each path tool.
First of all, the drawing, usually using the pen tool, with the same kind of a free pen tool, although the latter we did not specifically introduced, but by virtue of the knowledge we now have, self-study should not have problems. When using a pen, note that the cursor indicates that a new path will be established if the cursor is, or that the cursor is a closed path during the drawing process. Click on the endpoint of an open path (that is, the tail and end anchor point) to continue drawing the path, or connect it to another open path.
In the drawing process, the easiest way to finish drawing is to hold down the CTRL key and click outside the path.
Again, the most common use is the direct selection tool and the conversion point tool. Next is the Pen class tool. What's more special is the freedom to transform.
The direct selection tool is used primarily to select and move anchor points. But it can also modify the direction line, just hold down the ALT key to modify One Direction line individually. In addition, the direct selection tool can also directly modify the fragment. Hold down the CTRL key during use to switch to the path selection tool.
The Convert point tool modifies the anchor direction line, and the CTRL key is used to switch to the direct selection tool, which makes it easy to continue modifying other anchor points. It also has the ability to turn the anchor point into a line or curve, and drag on the anchor point to redefine the direction line (if it was originally a line anchor point, the curve anchor Point).
The Pen class tool is actually drawn with the modified function, that is, press the CTRL key to switch to the direct selection tool, press the ALT key to switch to the conversion point tool. This is what we ask you to master the drawing method. In addition, the pen tool can add or remove anchor points. and connecting multiple paths.

12-7 planning Strokes