Hi, this is Anne for Graphic Design How To, and last week we talked about the Curvature
Tool a little bit, and a lot about the Pen Tool.
And this week I want to go over the Curvature Tool because I was able to borrow a computer
that has CC installed.
That's Creative Cloud...Adobe Creative Cloud.
So I want to talk about the Curvature Tool.
If you want to follow along, you can go ahead and download these files from the Adobe site.
And that can be found in my description.
So let's get started.
OK, now the Curvature Tool, it tries to sort of guess what you're going to do, so let's
select it.
And we'll come over here to Exercise 1, and I'll show you how easy it can be to make just
a circle.
So I'm going to click in the first spot, then the next one, and see how it's already got
that curve going on for me.
That is really awesome.
I will click here and then here and then finally finish.
So it's almost a perfect circle...very smooth right off the bat.
With the Pen Tool, you would be probably not quite as smooth as this.
The Curvature Tool really tries to guess what you're trying to do, and then make it smooth.
The Pen Tool just kind of...you're on your own with that.
So it is useful for that.
I actually find the Pen Tool a lot easier than the Curvature Tool, but maybe it's just
because I'm not used to it.
Let's move on to Exercise 2.
The way this exercise is set up, you have a circle and then a double circle here.
If there's a double circle, it means you click twice.
So I'm going to click in the first spot once, and then click over here twice.
And what that does is, it gives you a straight point instead of a curve point, or it's supposed
to...let me click one more time.
Oh, let me click, double click.
OK, there we go.
And we'll move down here.
If you want to see your whole screen, you can just hit the spacebar and move it, and
it'll snap right back to your Curvature Tool.
I'm going to double click here.
And that should give me a straight point.
As you can see, it's not curving, and we'll double click here to get another straight
point.
And then finally, here.
I'm going to double click here, and that should give me my straight point.
So obviously, if you downloaded these files, you'll be able to tell that we're making a
guitar just like this one over here.
And right now we're going to make the body of the guitar.
And these are all just single clicks.
So I'll show you how the Curvature Tool can make things really smooth without too much
effort.
So we'll click once here, once here, here, and we'll just keep clicking.
And as you can tell, it's changing the line up here, even though I'm not anywhere near
that now.
It's trying to guess what kind of smoothness I'm wanting.
So we'll click on around.
I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on this.
But you can see it's changing the line as you change your shape direction.
And watch when I click up here, it's going to straighten this out.
And that is pretty sweet.
Let me CMD minus, and we can see the whole shape now.
OK, Exercise 4.
They've already completed part of the path, so you just need to select it with either
the V or the A Tool.
And then we'll select our Curvature Tool.
And all they want us to do here is double click this to show you what happens.
And make sure to double click it, because it's not as easy as you would think.
But it changes it from a curve to a straight line if you double click.
Alright, simple as that.
Let's go on to Exercise 5, wherever it may be...oh, there it is.
Go ahead and hit your V tool, select that shape that they have drawn, and then go back
to your Curvature Tool.
It shows that there's a point here, and with your Curvature Tool, you can just grab that
point and just bring it in like this.
And it's very smooth.
If you want to straighten it out, you can double click, but that's basically the entire
guitar.
Now if we wanted to, we could take it all apart and put it together like this, and we
would have a full guitar.
But I don't think we need to do that because here it is right here.
So yeah, I'm not doing that.
I do want to go over a couple of the tools that are underneath this Pen Tool.
And they are Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, and
Anchor Point Tool.
I'll show you what each one of those does.
If you add the anchor point... let's zoom in with the Z Tool.
I am going to select this with my A Tool, and then to add an anchor point, you hit P
and the 'plus' key on your keyboard.
If we have this P plus, we can click on different parts of this path and just add points along
there.
You have to click right on that path though.
OK, so as you can see, we've got some points that I just added.
Now we can switch back to our A Tool and grab each one of those points separately and change
them as we need to.
Let's say I didn't want this anchor point here.
I can do P minus, and that will be the Subtract Anchor Point, and you can just click right
on that anchor point and it gets rid of it.
It doesn't cut your path.
If you wanted to cut your path, you would choose a different tool, or you can just hit
the Delete button.
So I'll show you what that does.
If I select that anchor point...as you can see it's blue, and the others are white, so
that means it's selected.
So you can just hit Delete, and then you've broken your path.
But if you don't want to break the path, you can just do P minus.
So that is the Delete Anchor Point Tool.
Now this Anchor Point Tool down here, you can get to it with SHIFT C. So I'll go ahead
and hit that.
What this does is, it changes whatever point you click on to a straight point or a curve
point.
Right now we have a curve here.
You can see the handle here.
And I'll just click and now it's a straight point.
Now it looks curved here.
But that's because this one is a curved point.
This is actually to a straight point.
I'm going to click here to make this one also a straight point.
And now you can see we actually have straight lines.
This is really handy.
If you wanted to make a point here, for example, I'll get to that Anchor Point Tool.
And I'll just click once, and it changes this to a straight point.
So if you wanted to make a little geolocation symbol, you could just drag this up, shift
it around, and then add a circle in the middle.
So now you have your own little geolocation icon.
That is actually my short little lesson for the day.
I hope this has been useful to learn the Curvature Tool.
Let me know if you're having any problems or if you have any questions in the comment
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