of segments in between. You can also, by the way, just go ahead and drag
00:01:25 along the path if you like, or you can drag along
00:01:29 the smoother outline that you're looking for.
00:01:31 Another option is to get rid of this area altogether
00:01:35 by grabbing the Path Eraser tool and then dragging
00:01:38 its hotspot, which is the eraser portion of the cursor
00:01:41 by the way, from one endpoint to another,
00:01:44 and then that's just going to delete that range
00:01:46 of points in between.
00:01:48 Then you can redraw them by switching back
00:01:51 to the Pencil tool, which, of course, you can get
00:01:53 by pressing the N key, and then you could just try
00:01:55 to draw a better path outline in between.
00:01:58 Another way to work is to go ahead and start
00:02:01 at a certain point and then draw the better path
00:02:04 outline like so, and then end at a specific point
00:02:08 in the shape, and you've got to be very careful
00:02:10 if you're going to do that, especially when you're
00:02:12 working with close path outlines because it's easy
00:02:15 to do this number where you don't quite end things
00:02:17 right and you end up opening the path outline.
00:02:21 So if what I want to do is change the course
00:02:23 of the path, then I'll go ahead and undo
00:02:25 that modification and I will once again drag
00:02:28 like so from one point,
00:02:30 one interior point in the shape, to another.
00:02:33 And then, I might just go ahead and say, "All right,
00:02:36 "I want this to be a little sharper down here
00:02:38 "at the bottom," and so I'll redraw that section
00:02:41 and then I'll redraw this section,
00:02:43 as well, and so on.
00:02:45 And that's how you smooth out as well as redraw
00:02:48 certain portions of a path outline, using a combination
00:02:51 of the Smooth tool, the Path Eraser
00:02:54 and the Pencil tool, which are all, as we've seen,
00:02:58 available from the same flyout menu.