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- Alright, so if using the
Pencil Tool with a mouse

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is a good experience,

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then using it with a drawing tablet

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is absolutely sublime.

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And if you can draw you
really want to invest

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in a drawing tablet.

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They can be had for as
little as 100 bucks,

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depends on the model.

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And the best place to
find them incidentally

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is from a company called Wacom,

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that's W-A-C-O-M.

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And you can find all
about them at wacom.com.

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Meanwhile, if you have a couple

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of thousand dollars to throw at it

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you can get the tablet
that I'll be demostrating,

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which is a Cintiq.

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Which is essentially a screen
that you can draw on directly,

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which provides you the best
graphics experience there is.

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In this movie we're
going to start things off

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by creating what's known
as a tracing template.

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So the idea here is that
I did a pencil sketch

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using a real pencil and a piece of paper,

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and then I scanned it

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and placed it inside of an illustration.

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This could just as easily
however be a photograph.

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And let me show you how to
create a tracing template

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in this very movie.

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So the first step is to
go up to the File menu

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and choose New from Template,

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or once again, you have
that keyboard shortcut

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of ctrl + shift + N, or
cmd + shift + N on a Mac,

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then locate your center guides template

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and click on the New button
in order to create it.

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Now in this case we don't
really need the guides,

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so I'm going to get rid of them

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by going up to the View menu,

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choosing Guides, and then
choosing Clear Guides.

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Alright, now I'll go ahead
and click on the guides layer

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to make it active, and I'll place my image

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by going to the File menu and
choosing the Place command,

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or you have that fairly
predictable keyboard shortcut

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of ctrl + shift + P, or
cmd + shift + P on a Mac.

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Alright, now if you're
working along with me

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I've got the pencil
sketch ready and waiting,

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Pencil sketch.jpg.

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Go ahead and select it, and
then click the Place button.

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Now notice at this point
you could make it a template

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just by turning on the Template checkbox,

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but that tends to be a
fairly messy experience

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and it doesn't allow you
to control the placement

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or the scale of the template.

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So just go ahead and
click the Place button.

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That will load the cursor with the image,

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as we're seeing here.

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At which point just go ahead and click

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in order to place the
image inside the document.

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Now what you want to do

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is go up here to the control panel,

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make sure that the alignment option

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is set to Align to Artboard,

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and then click on each
of the Center icons.

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First Horizontal Align Center,

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and then Vertical Align Center.

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Alright, now click on the word Transform

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in order to bring up the Transform panel.

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And make sure the center point is selected

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over here in the Reference Point matrix.

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Then turn on the link, so
that we're constraining

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the width and height values to each other.

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And that will allow us to
proportionally resize the image.

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At which point I'm going to change

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the width value to 940 points.

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And that will change the
height value in kind.

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Alright, now you can press the escape key

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in order to hide that panel.

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Next what you want to do is double-click

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in an empty portion of this guides layer

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in order to bring up the
Layer Options dialog box.

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Let's go ahead and call
this layer template,

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since that's what it is.

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And you also want to turn on

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the Template checkbox right here.

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And that'll go ahead and
automatically dim the image to 50%,

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which is going to work out great.

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You can change that value if you want to,

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but 50% works well for
this specific template.

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So I'll go ahead and click OK

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in order to create that
new tracing template.

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At which point I can go ahead

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and begin drawing with the Pencil Tool

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here on the drawing layer.

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Which is exactly what we'll be doing

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by the way, starting in the next movie.