Subtitles of the Movie

You can also delete an Anchor Point. When you do that you're going to see a negative sign over one of the Anchor Points. Right there, if I Ð look right where my mouse cursor is, there's a negative sign there Ð that will delete that Anchor Point. There's a plus sign, and there's the negative sign, so you can see that I'm changing the shape of the line by deleting these Anchor Points here. Again, a little bit tricky. You've got to have a real precise mouse movements there, but you can see that that line definitely is changing based on me removing those Anchor Points there. Next, you've got the Closed Path Pointer, that's this one here with the little zero, or o there. This closes the path you're drawing on the starting point of the path. You can only close a path that you're currently drawing, and the existing Anchor Point must be the starting Anchor Point of the same path. The resulting path does not have any specified Fill, Color, Settings applied to the enclosed shape. You can apply Fill Color separately using the Paint Bucket. I'll go ahead and demonstrate this with a new shape. Notice if I create a new shape there and I move to the closing point, or the starting point there, I get that closed path pointer and then I can take my Paint Bucket and fill the resulting shape. Next, we have this Pointer, the little right there, the little slanted line there, that's the Continue Path Pointer. This extends a new path from an existing Anchor Point. For this Pointer to be activated the mouse must be over an existing Anchor Point or on a path and this Pointer is only available when you're not currently drawing a path. Notice that nothing is selected there. The Anchor Point does not have to be one of the terminal Anchor Points of a path. Any Anchor Point can be the location of a continued path. There we go. Notice that I'm continuing that out there. Now I clicked once and it extended the line out, but it also selected the line segment. That's a little bit tricky one, that Continue Path Pointer. Next is the Retract Bezier Handle Pointer. That's a little carat. This appears when the mouse is over an Anchor Point whose Bezier handles are currently displayed. If I click on this line segment and then move my cursor over one of the Anchor Points, there's the carat, right there. Clicking the mouse retracts the Bezier handles and causes the curved path across the Anchor Point to revert to a straight segment, so in essence I'm converting the curved line into a straight line. I've just deleted that Anchor Point. And go ahead and create a new curved line segment, very curvy. There are my Bezier handles, and notice there's the carat; click and it basically removes the, retracts the Bezier handle, converting that into a straight line segment; right there is the straight line segment. And there's another one there. Actually, one thing that you can do is zoom in on these shapes here, and this will allow you to see this a little bit easier. There's the carat there. If I click, it retracts that Bezier handle there, and now notice that I have a straight line segment. This is a little bit tricky and a little bit finicky, but with some practice you'll get it. I recommend using some very simple shapes as I've done here to practice these various techniques using the Pen Tool. Let me now move on to the next movie and review in more detail the Text Tool.