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3. Click the green line on the hood to select the shape, then click the anchor
point on the front edge of the car hood to select it.

Clicking a line with the Subselection tool reveals the shape’s anchor points.

Subselection
tool

Click a line to
reveal the shape’s
anchor points.

4. Click to select the anchor point near the top front edge of the car’s hood.

Because you are using the
Subselection tool, you can select
individual anchor points. Selecting
an anchor point reveals the handles
that are related to that anchor point,
which allows you to edit those Selected points
handles. are filled.
Unselected points
are hollow.

Direction handles
for the selected
point are visible.

5. Click the outer direction handle (the one on the bottom) and drag up and
left to reshape the curve on the top corner of the bumper.
When you drag one direction
handle, the point remains smooth
but it is no longer symmetrical;
changing the length, but not the
angle, of a direction handle affects
only the segment on the same side Drag the handle along the
of the point as the handle that you existing line position to
shorten the handle without
change. changing its angle.
Because this is still a smooth point,
however, dragging one handle to a
different angle would also affect the Note:
point’s other handle — affecting the
shapes of both segments that are connected to the anchor point. If you drag toward or
away from the anchor
point without changing
the angle, you are
changing the arc of the
segment that is related to
the changed handle.

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