What I do is that I click out a lot of linear points with this tool
then I use the


and click on the lines and drag to make them curved or select the nodes I want to be soft and convert them.

Very quick to work with.

I agree the gradient handler should be quite high priority since its something that one constantly use. You should not be able to change the position of the first and the last stop. You can not do that in photoshop. From a UI perspective you should consider to remove or grey out the position handles...

Scale tool/rotate tool To scale and rotate only selected vector points, within an object not whole objects. (Perhaps one should also be able rotate the scale tool, to be able to scale in different directions.) A setting for: Applying a rotation or scale on all the selected objects as if though they ...

Nice suggestions. Especially the select by name would be useful also the gradient editor needs to be reworked. Having the ability to see all the stops at once would be much better. It would also be nice being able to select several stops at once to move them at the same time. Or move a stop up or do...

Great tutorial, but it is not as easy and fast to use as a mirror/symetric tool would be for most users.

So I second on the symmetric tool.