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- [Deke] In this movie,

we'll put the finishing



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touches on her tattooed face.



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Now, for starters, these lines wouldn't be



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nearly so sharp, they would have bled into



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the skin to some extent or other,



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so I'm going to go ahead and target



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the tattoo two layer, right there



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and I'm going to shift target tattoo one.



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So the entirety of both

layers are selected.



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The only reason that we

can't see any selection edges



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is because I hid them

by pressing Control + H



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or Command + H on the Mac.



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Anyway, I'm going to leave them hidden,



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and I'm going to go up to

the Effect menu, choose Blur,



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and then choose Gaussian Blur.



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I'll go ahead and turn

on the preview checkbox



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so I can see what's going on and notice



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even at a low radius value of three pixels



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this looks terrible.



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So I'm going to take this

value down to one pixel



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and see if that looks any better,



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and as you can see we've

got a ton of pixels



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and that's because our

document raster effects setting



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is set to a low resolution.



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So for now, just go ahead and click OK



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to accept that change.



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Then to make things

look a whole lot better,



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I'll go up to the Effect menu



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and choose Document

Raster Effects Settings



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which is going to affect

not just the selected stuff



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but the entire document

and then notice right now



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we're working with a resolution

of 72 pixels per inch



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which makes for a very speedy environment



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but if we want better

looking raster effects,



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then Gaussian Blur is

a pixel based effect.



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Then we need to switch to

high, 300 pixels per inch,



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at which point, I'll go ahead and click OK



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to apply that change and a moment later,



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you'll see that everything

looks much better.



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Here's a problem.



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I'll go ahead and switch

over to the appearance panel,



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and click on Gaussian Blur.



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Notice that Illustrator has thoughtfully



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scale this radius value and

taking it up to 4.2 pixels.



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I'm not sure I want that much blur,



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so I'm going to turn

on the preview checkbox



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and take this guy down to three pixels



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at which point I think

it looks a lot better.



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Alright, now click OK.



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Now, you may have wondered over the years



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what the difference between Gaussian Blur



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and this command right

here Stylize Feather.



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What are the difference

between those two commands?



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Because they're both

fundamentally blur effects.



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Well, let me show you.



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For a moment, I'm going to go

ahead and turn Gaussian Blur off



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and then I'll return to the

Effect Menu choose Stylize



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and choose Feather, and

this time I'll go ahead



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and set it to four, let's say,



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and I'll turn on the preview checkbox.



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Now for one thing, the Feather value works



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in whole point increments whereas you can



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enter decimals for Gaussian Blur



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But also notice this is not really a blur,



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this is almost a masked

kind of blur effect,



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and as I reduce the value by

pressing the down arrow key,



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you can see that we're

filling in the edges



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and so we're almost puddling paint



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inside the edges of the artwork here



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and we're also dulling the corners.



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So I'm going to take

this radius value down



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to just one point so that

we have just a little bit



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of that effect going

and then I'll click OK.



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And now, I want this guy to

appear before Gaussian Blur,



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that is to get applied

before Gaussian Blur,



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and so I'd like to drag it up the list



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but I can't do that.



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And you may recall where

dynamic effects are concerned,



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the one at the top is the

one that's applied first



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and the one at the bottom is applied last.



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But because I have

multiple layers going on,



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I can't change the order.



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So I'm going to switch

back to the layers panel



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and target just one of the layers,



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tattoo one to start with

and then I'll switch back



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to the appearance panel

and I'll drag this guy up



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and now it works great and

I'll turn on Gaussian Blur



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so that it gets applied second.



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In this way, we'll get a little

bit of an averaging effect,



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before we apply the blur.



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Alright, now I'll switch

back to the layers panel,



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target the tattoo two layer,



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switch back to appearance, go ahead



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and drag Feather above Gaussian Blur



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so it gets applied first and turn on



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the Gaussian Blur filter like so as well.



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Alright, that takes care of

most of what we need to do.



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I'm going to press Control + Shift + A



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or Command + Shift + A on a Mac



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to deselect the image

and then I'll zoom out



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and I'm going to go ahead

and unlock the gradient layer



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because I want to add a

little bit of texture.



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We have so much texture

going on in the face now



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that it seems a shame that even though



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our background contains a gradient,



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it's relatively flat.



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And so, I'm going to go ahead and click



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in this file named gradient to select it.



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We can't tell the rectangle is selected



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because the edges are hidden so I'll press



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Control + H or Command

+ H to bring them back



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and at least that way we can see



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this little center point right there.



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Alright, now, I'll switch

to the appearance panel



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and what I want to do

is add a pattern fill.



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And so I'll go ahead and

click on the add new fill icon



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at the bottom of the panel.



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It ends up appearing above the stroke,



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I don't care about that,

because there isn't a stroke



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and now I'll go ahead and

bring up the swatches panel



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which you can also get

by choosing Swatches



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from the Window menu, and

notice this default swatch



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right there, it's called Jive,



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I'm going to click on it to select it,



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and you can see that it's got



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some transparency built into it



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but it's only transparency, no blend mode.



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We've got some 100% opaque stuff,



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this paths right here,

the start blue paths,



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and then some 40% opaque paths.



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And I just happened to know that



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because I inspected the pattern



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and we'll see what that looks like



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when we take a look at

seamlessly repeating patterns



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in a future chapter, but for now



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what I want to do is change the blend mode



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assigned to this fill, so,



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go ahead and twirl it

open, click on the word



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Opacity to bring up the opacity panel



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for the specific attribute

and change the blend mode



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from normal to multiply,



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and that's going to create

a very dark effect indeed.



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It's too dark, in my opinion,

so I'm going to press



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the the three key, to back

off the opacity to 30%.



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Of course, once again,

assuming that you installed



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dekeKeys, you can do the same.



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And now, I'm going to zoom out once again



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by pressing Control + Zero

or Command + Zero on a Mac,



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I'll select that fill, and I

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I want to scale it by going

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chose Distort & Transform,

and choosing Transform,



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or again if you loaded

dekeKeys, you have that



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shortcut of Control + E

or Command + E on a Mac



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and I'll go and turn on

the preview checkbox.



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Now, you want transformed

objects to be turned off.



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You just want transformed

patterns to be turned on.



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'Cause otherwise you'll

scale the rectangle as well,



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which isn't that big of a problem



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because you just scale

it so that it was bigger



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than the art board, but that's generally



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the best way to work.



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And then click in the horizontal value,



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and press Shift + Up

Arrow, one, two, three,



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four times, in order

to increase that value



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to 140% and then do the

same for the vertical value,



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that'll take it up to 140% as well,



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and then I'll click OK

to accept that change,



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and I'll press Control + Shift

+ A or Command + Shift + A



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on a Mac in order to deselect my artwork.



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Now, you can see, if I

zoom in a little bit,



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that we've got this nice balance



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between the soft texture in the skin



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and that much sharper

texture in the background.



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Alright, those are our final changes



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to the tattooed face,

here inside Illustrator.



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In the next movie, I'll show you how to



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export your artwork to Photoshop



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and edit it still further.