User Guide

340 Corel Painter User Guide
Adding, Deleting, and Moving Anchor Points
You can add anchor points to create new vertices or curves. You can delete anchor
points to change the shape of the path or to smooth a contour that has unnecessary
points. This might occur when you draw with the Quick Curve tool or create a shape
from a selection.
You can move one or several anchor points by dragging. You can also move one or
several points by averaging, which moves two or more anchor points with respect to
each other.
Averaging is useful when you need to join the endpoint of one curve to the endpoint of
another. Averaging the endpoints in both directions brings them precisely on top of
each other. Now, when you join the endpoints, Corel Painter merges them to a single
point, through which the path continues. If you don’t average points that are near each
other, Corel Painter joins them with a segment.
To add or delete an anchor point
• With the Shape Selection tool , select a shape.
Use the Add Point tool to add anchor points to the path.
To Do the following
Add an anchor point Choose the Add Point tool in
the toolbox, and click where you want to add
the point.
Delete an anchor point Choose the Remove Point tool
in the toolbox, and click the anchor point
you want to delete.
The anchor point is deleted, but the path
remains connected.