Alternatively, you can marquee over one side of the triangle, and two anchor points will be selected. Hold the shift key and click a second anchor point (so one whole side is selected), then begin dragging the mouse to move both anchor points at one time. Click on one anchor point of the triangle. Just for practice, use the Direct Selection Tool to modify two anchor points at a time. Part B: Modify anchor points using the Direct Selection Tool Location of :Swap Fill and Stroke on the main Tool panel Filling the triangle with color Key Command: The letter x on the keypad will switch the fill/stroke color in Illustrator® (in PhotoShop the same hot-key switches the foreground and background colors). The stroke and fill colors switch places, (in this example, the triangle becomes red with no stroke, as opposed to a triangle with no fill, outlined in red). Click the curved arrow above the fill and stroke tools in the tool panel.
Select the triangle with the Selection Tool if it isn’t already selected.This is referred to as “closing the path.” When a path is closed, or a shape is whole, it is easy to fill the shape with a color using the Selection Tool and the color tool panels.
Notice in this image that the Pen Tool displays a small o, symbolizing that the path is closed and a whole object is made when the last click with the Pen Tool is made directly on the first anchor point. The fourth click needs to be exactly where the first anchor point was made.Image Caption: Notice in this image that the Pen Tool displays a small o, symbolizing that the path is closed and a whole object is made when the last click with the Pen Tool is made directly on the first anchor point. Click on the third corner of the triangle. Click on the next corner of the triangle. Click once at one corner of the triangle with the Pen Tool.Part A: Recreate the triangle with the Pen Tool Notice how the line can be bold and aggressive with a larger stroke size or faint and slim with a stroke size that is less than 1 point. Use the Selection Tool to select the line and change the weight of the stroke from the Control panel.Watch for this: The anchor points grow larger as the mouse hovers near them, making it easier to find the anchor points when nothing is selected. Deselect the line, then use the Direct Selection Tool to click once on the anchor point at the end of the line and drag it to increase the length of the line. Once the line is made, it can be modified with the Selection Tool for moving, rotating, or transforming or by the Direct Selection Tool, to modify one anchor point at a time.If you are having trouble seeing the red line increase the stroke size to 6pts. In two clicks, the Pen Tool creates two anchor points and joins the points with a straight line. Move the mouse to the end of the black line. To make a straight line in red, click one time at the beginning of the black painted line.Click once on the stroke icon at the bottom of the panel and set the stroke to red, so that you will see your work when it sits on top of the black template layer. Click on the vertical bar arrow on the right to undock the panel.The Pen Tool plots anchor points each time you click the mouse. Click and hold your mouse on the tool to see the additional tools used on vector paths. Select the Pen Tool from the Tool panel.
6.2 Exercise 2: Recreating straight lines with the Pen Tool
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