How To Smooth An Already Drawn Path In Inkscape

In a previous tutorial we went over how to draw smooth paths, but what if you want to smooth out a path that has already been drawn? That's what we'll be covering in this tutorial.

In short, this is accomplished using the "Smooth" path effect, which serves as an alternative to Illustrator's Smooth Tool.

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[OliWarner]

Screamed at my phone when you showed me Control+clicking a node. I've wasted hours of my life doing that manually. Thank you.

[MrOnosa]

Oh! This was exactly what I wanted to learn about after learning about lines. Thank you for making both these tutorials.

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[rodneycassidy]

Control L is the shortcut to simplify. The path effect has more settings but sometimes the simplify command is useful.

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Hi Nick! Thank you for all of your fantastic tutorials. I previously bought your masterclass and it is excellent and I highly recommend it! I recently got my first job in the design industry using a portfolio of works I made with Inkscape and GIMP. For work I use the Adobe suite daily, but I honestly much prefer the free and low-cost software over the Adobe programs. I continue to use Inkscape and GIMP for my personal work. I love that you are so assertive that you can still be a serious designer without using Adobe programs - it's absolutely true!! Thank you for all the tips, tricks and knowledge, I feel you are partially responsible for getting me this job and I am so so grateful.

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[vratel]

I'm addicted to your guides... I've been using them for several years ! Thank you very much !

[flyingsquirrel]

Thanks! There are so many useful path effects in inkape, its really amazing.

I think you could have selected all nodes and turned them into smooth nodes at once though. In case someone has a path with a lot of nodes, that's way quicker!

[yeong]

Shift clicking the node is so useful. Thank you for the small details!

[billc]

Your creativity is AWESOME! And your video with its humor, was wonderful! Great video!

[agpxnet]

InkScape is soooo powerful! I like this simplify tool tremendously!

[pavermakeover]

Just wanted to say thanks for video, I never use inkscape but needed to smooth out some lines so I could import into fusion360 and extrude some shapes. All the node points were freezing up my computer. Smoothed out the lines and it worked great. thanks for the video.

[bazz]

Nice! Thanks Nick. Probably could have used that one a couple of times in the past, but thanks, good to know.

[grungko]

I wish i knew sooner that holding control and clicking on a node irons it, it would have saved me a lot of time ! Thank you for this info

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[michaeltrottier]

Hold control and click on the node.... thanks for the new information nugget! 👍

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