While working in Adobe Illustrator, every designer might need to use Smooth Tool. It is used to Smooth the curves or the corners of any shape that you have drawn on your artboard.
Smoothing the corners may bring the best creativity to your design, as everyone does not wants corners of the shapes sometimes. So that is the reason behind using the Smooth Tool in your work and creating great designs.
But where is the Smooth Tool? Usually, we don’t see Smooth Tool in the left Toolbar of Adobe Illustrator. How to enable the tool to make it usable on the shapes for your designs.
So don’t worry. In this tutorial, we will help and guide you about the Smooth Tool and let you know how the Smooth Tool can be easily added to your toolbar with a few simple steps. Let’s Start.
Search Smooth Tool
If you cannot find the Smooth Tool and don’t know how it will appear in your toolbar then you are at the right place. Follow the given steps and add Smooth Tool to your tool list.
- By using Essential Classic workspace
- By Edit Toolbar
1st Method: By using Essential Classic workspace
We can have Smooth Tool in our toolbar by switching our workspace to Adobe Illustrator. Here is a step by step guide to help you:
Step 1: Run Adobe Illustrator.
Step 2: Create a document.
Step 3: On the top right side you will see an option to switch workspace.

Step 4: As you click on it, a different workspace option will be available.
Step 5: Choose Essential Classic.

Step 6: As you click on Essential Classic, you will see that new tools are added to your left toolbar.

Step 7: In the left toolbar, right-click on Shaper Tool.

Step 8: More tools will be displayed in a list.
Step 9: Select Smooth Tool.

Step 10: Now, you can use Smooth Tool to smooth any line or shape.
2nd Method: By Edit Toolbar
This is probably the most easiest way toadd Smooth Tool in your left toolbar. We will show you step by step way to add it.
Step 1: Click on Edit Toolbar, that is available under all your tools in the left side of your workspace.

Step 2: You will see All Tools panel appear. This tool panel have multiple tools in it that are not included in the left toolbar. You can add any tool manually from here.

Step 3: In the Draw section, you can see Smooth Tool.

Step 4: Simply click and drag it to the left toolbar to add it.

Smooth Tool is now added to your tool bar. You can easily access it from the toolbar any time when needed. That’s all. All Done! Enjoy.
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