everybody welcome to another illustrator cs6 tutorial
my name is buddy Blackford today we're gonna be
understanding pacts and are learning what they're all about and I'm gonna
give me some key terms and stuff like that that you should 0
so you when you talk to other people about illustrator need they know you're
talking about
so first of four gonna start about talking about paths
so when you draw on hijacked are you create one or more lines
it's called the past go ahead and select the pen tool here
and click once and then click again
and you got a line here now they're
line is called the path now
a path is made up are about one or more curved or straight lines
so I 5 made aligned here and
click and drag now I've got
a path here that see if I can
chain to sow there were no now got a path here that as curved lines in it
so these two are both still paths this one's back curved and that's when it's
alright so these are called
each party these paths are called segments in between each to these dots
so there's a dime facts like might that the Direct Selection Tool
there is a dot right there and there's a tad top
and there's a dot there now those dots
are called anchor points an anchor point is a pending point that's
used to modify the segment so if I click on ACA drag
and I can modify segment and this case and modifying
two segments so on there some terminology there for you
so decision on a path can be both
open and closed at these two paths are open
if I i make a path like this
now I've got a closed path or other
segments I'll come and close up the shape
you don't have any open space they are close to nothin
get if you're trying to kill like carer some like that inside
you wouldn't be able to because it's closed up
so that's a a little bit about that
so perhaps also have two types have anchor points
you've got a smooth points and you get corner points
and this one here would be called a smooth point because
it connects curving segments
now these two this one would be a corner
up point where it connects two straight lines
so some more terminology there Korea
now when you're working with
these paths you we back at these two important tools here we've got the
selection tool and then we've got the Direct Selection Tool selection tools
hockey is the
and direct selection tools 8 no one to use those
all the time when you're working because it's gonna make you work a lot faster
when he used the selection tool and click on some paths
it you click on the line dance gonna make it so
that the entire thing is selected and that way you can edit
and move around the Direct Selection Tool when you click
you can click directly on an anchor point and at the anchor point
or you can select more than one anchor point and with both of them
like this so there's a
the two tools appear on a want-to-be using a lot to modify your
paths now there's much other tools they can use to modify paths as well
but these are the just the two main ones they can use to modify your entire thing
or the anchor points
so to keep that in mind when you're working with anchor points
sure these points here if you remember you can
I just the way that they're shown click on this one
we've got these lines that come out and these lines
is it called handles and we have the ability to
heidi's on or show these we can show edges and stuff like that
soul we can go into the View menu here and
we can hide edges and when I do that
the edges a the a
underlines here their head
Anne and then
a faggo it back here I can go back to show wages and now they're shown again
another thing that we can do
is some second find it i'm looking for. show handles
one sec where the heck in ago
a lost track it oh yeah
uneven in that menu it's over here in the control panel
missus handles became and click to
hide handles for multiple selected points or show and also a Miss like a
couple points
here and right now in San
hide I click on it now not be on show
so that's another thing they can do then you go a bunch other things up here that
will go over later on at some point with the
anchor points but will save those for another tutorial
so will close out here 90 mile paths
you know that the paths are the winds
each if there's more than one line
on or if there's more than one anchor point on
a path than it's going to have segments
so each of these are segments each its online and here's a segment
and then you got your anchor points which are the points they are used a
modified paths:
so that's it and a and thank you guys for watching this one
and hopefully as learnable a little bit about this and now you've got some
terminology and your belt that you
can use when you're talking to other people and
me even if you like talking to someone not seek in correct them
when they say some rock band feel cool soho whatever
have a good day everybody