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- In this movie, we're
going to create the clouds

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and the birds, out here in the background.

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And we're going to do so very simply,

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by once again clicking with the Blob Brush

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and the Eraser Tool, but this time

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we're going to adjust the
roundness of the brush.

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I'm going to go ahead and switch over to

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my document in progress,
which as you can see,

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is a little different than
the one I created in advance.

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And now, I'll switch to the Blob Brush,

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which I can now get by pressing the b key,

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and I'm going to increase
the size of my brush

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by pressing and holding
the right bracket key,

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but I also want to create
something of a flatter brush.

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Something that's not exactly this round.

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And so I'll press the enter key,

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or the return key on the Mac.

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And notice these options down
here below the Size value.

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We've got Angle and Roundness.

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Well, Angle's not going
to make any difference

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until you adjust the Roundness.

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And you can do that by either
reducing the Roundness value,

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so anything less than a 100%, is an oval,

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as you can see right here.

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Or, you can drag these little handles

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that are located on either
side of the ellipse.

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Then, you can modify the
Angle, if you're so inclined,

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and in addition to adjusting
the Angle value down here,

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you can drag this little arrowhead

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on the right hand side of the oval.

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In my case, I'm going
to leave the Angle value

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set to zero degrees,

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and I'm going to change
the Roundness value to 75%,

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and then I'll click OK
to accept that change,

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and you can now see that
I have a flatter brush.

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At which point, I'm going to scroll over

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a little bit like so.

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And of course I want
the clouds to be white,

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and so I can either
change the fill to white,

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or I can specify a white stroke, like so.

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And then, I'll press the
escape key to hide that panel,

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and I'll go ahead and
click right about here,

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to create my first oval.

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Then I'll reduce the size of
my brush and I'll click there,

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and I'll reduce it even farther,

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and click right about there,

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above the guy's ear.

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And I might want to put another oval

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right about there, and
possibly a larger one here,

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and perhaps a smaller one right there.

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And then I'll just paint
the rest of the cloud,

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in order to finish off that effect.

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And now I'm going to go
ahead and create another one

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over here on the right hand side.

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And you may have noticed

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that I kind of misjoining
these guys together,

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and that's because I was
clicking at different locations,

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and because of that setting,
that checkbox up here,

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Merge Only with Selection,
I have to have the clouds

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selected in order to merge them.

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Which means, that I could
press the ctrl and shift keys,

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that's command and shift on the mac,

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and then click, on this
cloud to select it,

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and then if I just drag like so,

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I'm going to merge all
those clouds together.

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Alright, now I might
press shift, right arrow,

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just to nudge those guys
to the right a little bit,

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and now I'm going to zoom in even more,

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and I'm going to press ctrl, shift, a,

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or command, shift, a, on a
Mac to deselect the clouds.

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And I'm going to change
the fill color up here,

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either fill or stroke actually,

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to this light shade of gray,

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where all the RGB values are 204.

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And then, I'll press the
escape key to hide that panel,

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and I'll go ahead and
increase the size of my brush

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a little bit more, and I'll click there,

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and then I'll reduce the size of my brush,

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click right about here,

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and I'll increase the size
again, and click there.

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Alright, now what we need to do,

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is erase away some of these ellipses,

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so that just the bottom
edges of the clouds are gray.

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And so I'll do that by first
switching to the Eraser Tool,

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which I can now get by pressing the e key,

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and then I'll press the enter key,

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or the return key on the Mac,

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to bring up the Eraser Tool Options,

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and I'll change its Roundness
value to 75% as well,

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and press the enter key,

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or the return key on the
Mac, to apply that change.

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And now I'm going to make my
brush just slightly smaller,

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than this right hand ellipse.

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And I'm going to click right about there,

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and now I'll make the brush smaller still,

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and click here, and then
I'll make the brush bigger,

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and the Eraser Tool seems
to react much more quickly

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than the Blob Brush, to you
pressing the bracket keys,

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so just bear that in mind.

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And then, click a third time
in order to create this effect,

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and now I'll press ctrl, shift, a,

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or command, shift, a, on the Mac,

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to deselect those paths.

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Alright, now let's go back
to the very first cloud,

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and select the Blob Brush once again,

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and it looks like my cursor's big enough

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to click right there,
in the center of things,

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and now I'll reduce the size of my brush,

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and I'll click here, and here,

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and then finally I'll reduce
the brush size even further,

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but not too far because I
want to be able to click

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on that selection, right
at this location here.

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Alright, now I'll return
to the Eraser Tool.

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Again, you can get that
by pressing the e key,

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and I'll click here with a
slightly smaller brush I think.

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And right about there,
with a pretty large brush.

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A still bigger brush is
needed at this location

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and then a smaller
brush again right there.

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Alright, now I'm going to
switch back to the Blob Brush.

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And I'll go ahead and zoom
out by pressing ctrl, zero,

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or command, zero, on the Mac,

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and I'm going to zoom in
on the right hand side,

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once again, to create those birds,

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and I'm going to make that
happen by pressing the enter key,

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or the return key on a Mac,

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to once again bring up this dialogue box.

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And this time I'm going to
take the Roundness value

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down to 50%, and I'll click OK,

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in order to accept that change.

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And I'm going to change
the fill color to black,

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this time, and I'll just go ahead

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and click right about there,

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and just to the right to add
another ellipse to that shape.

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Alright, now I want to erase
into those shapes slightly.

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So I'll switch back to the Eraser Tool,

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and I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac,

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in order to bring up the dialogue box.

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I'll change the Roundness
value to once again to 50%,

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and then I'll press the left
bracket key a couple of times,

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in order to reduce the size of my brush,

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maybe to about there, let's say.

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So my ellipse brush is a little bigger

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than the one that I used
with the Blob Brush Tool,

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and now I'll click right about there.

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Alright, now I'm going to press the v key

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to switch back to the Arrow Tool.

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I think my bird is a little
too big at this point,

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so I'll click on the word Transform,

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up here in the Control Panel,

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and you want to make
sure that the chain icon

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is turned on, at which point,

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I'll go ahead and click on the
w, to select the width value,

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and I'll change it to 50 points,

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and that'll reduce the size
of the bird quite a bit.

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And now, I'll go ahead and move
this guy over to right here,

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let's say, and then I'll
create a copy at this location

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by pressing and holding the
alt key at the end of the drag.

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And then, I'll create a third bird over

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at this location right there.

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And then, I'll go ahead press ctrl, zero,

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or command, zero, on the mac to zoom out.

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I think these guys should
be on the background layer,

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so I'm going to go ahead
and marquee these shapes

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over here, on the right hand side,

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and then I'll shift
marquee the ones over here

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on the left hand side.

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I messed up that shape right there.

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I went and colored it
black, but in any event,

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I'm going to unlock my background layer,

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by clicking on this lock icon,

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then I'll drag that purple square down,

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so that all the shapes are
now on the background layer.

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I'll click off the
shapes to deselect them.

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I'll select this guy again, and
I'll click on its fill icon,

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and change it back to
that light shade of gray.

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And then I'll click off the
shapes to deselect them.

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Unfortunately, that went
and selected the sky.

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And so to deselect it, I'll just go ahead

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and lock down that layer by once again,

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clicking in that second column.

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And now I'll zoom in slightly

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so that we can take in the final effect.

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And that's how you create
a couple of cartoon clouds

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and some distant birds, by once again,

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simply clicking with the Blob
Brush and the Eraser Tool,

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set to reduced Roundness values.