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- [Instructor] In this movie,



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we're going to take our denim pattern



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and make it look like actual denim



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instead of just a bunch of chunky lines.



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All right, so the first

thing I'm going to do is



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fix these gaps right here



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by double-clicking on the

vertical denim pattern



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here inside the Swatches panel.



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And that will take us back

to the pattern editor,



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and I'll go ahead and zoom on in.



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And, on second thought,



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I've decided a Width value of 96 points



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is going to work out just fine.



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The problem is that some of these edges



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are precariously close to the corners.



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So I'm going to press the A key



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to switch to my White Arrow tool.



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And I'm going to marquee

these top two points here,



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and I'll marquee these

bottom two points as well.



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And then I'll press the left

arrow key a couple of times



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to move 'em over.



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And I'm going to do the

same with these guys.



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I'll marquee these two sets

of points, these two pairs,



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and I'll Shift marquee the ones down here.



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You've got to move the top

and bottom points together,



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always, in order to ensure

that things line up.



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And I'll marquee these two pair of points



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and Shift marquee these guys



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and nudge them over a couple of points.



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Now what we need to do

is just kind of fill in



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some of these gaps here,



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and that's just a matter of

randomly grabbing points,



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like so, and dragging them

into different positions.



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And this is all going to be manual work.



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It's entirely subjective as well.



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You want to make sure that you're



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doing kind of different things

with different path outlines.



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So you don't always want

to move a bunch of stuff



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over to the left or over

to the right either,



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for that matter.



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So you just want to vary

it up as much as possible



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so that we can keep this

looking extremely random.



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Problem is, you just don't

want the negative space



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of one of these guys to match up



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with the negative space of its neighbor.



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So you just want to fill

things in reasonably.



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And you don't need to

spend a ton of time on it,



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but, you know, the more

time you spend probably,



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the better results you're going to get.



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In any case, let's see what

I've come up with so far.



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Maybe I'll grab this guy actually,



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and just kind of drag him up.



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And now I'll press the Escape key



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in order to exit the pattern editor.



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And I'll press Control + zero



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or Command + zero on a Mac to zoom out.



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And I can see some

pattern showing up here.



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There's this kind of swoop

right there, for example,



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that keeps repeating over and over again,



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but that's not going to be a problem



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once we tweak this rectangle.



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So go ahead and press the V key



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to switch to the Black Arrow tool,



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and click on the rectangle to select it.



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And you should see that it's selected here



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inside the pattern layer.



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And now you want to go

up to the Window menu



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and choose Appearance



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in order to switch to

the Appearance panel.



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And let's go ahead and add a

fill by clicking on this icon,



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or you can just press Command + slash.



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That's going to get

you a new fill as well.



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I'm going to drag this guy down

to the bottom of the stack,



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and I'm going to click on it.



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And I'm going to select

this swatch right here.



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Now this is not a default

swatch, by the way.



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This is one I've created for you.



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And so if you need to dial it in yourself,



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it's R 118,



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G 141,



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B 168.



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And it's a very low saturation blue



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that's in keeping with blue jeans.



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All right, so now I'll select

this pattern fill right here.



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And I'm going to click

on the word Opacity,



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and I'm going to change its

Blend Mode to Soft Light



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in order to produce this effect here.



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All right, now I want to

transform it a little bit.



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And so I'll select that pattern fill,



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there in the Appearance panel.



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I'll go up to the Effect menu,

choose Distort & Transform,



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and choose the Transform command,



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and I'm just going to change

each of the Scale values to 50%.



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I'll turn on the Preview

checkbox to see that, oops,



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I've actually made my fill smaller.



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And so I'll turn off Transform Objects



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so that we're exclusively

transforming the patterns,



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and then I'll click OK.



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All right, now I'm going to go ahead



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and zoom in just a little bit more,



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and we're going to create

a copy of this fill



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by dropping down to the little page icon



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and clicking on it.



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So now we have two pattern fills.



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I'll go ahead and click the word Transform



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in order to bring back the

Transform Effect panel.



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And I'll turn on the

Preview checkbox once again,



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click inside the Angle value

and press Shift + down arrow



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in order to take it down

to negative 30 degrees,



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and I'll click OK.



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And now we have something

that better resembles denim.



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And when you zoom in to it,



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it doesn't look like denim at all.



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But when you press Control + zero



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or Command + zero on a Mac to zoom out,



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it very much resembles

the texture of blue jeans.



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All right, I'm going to go ahead



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and twirl these fills closed right here,



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and I'm going to add another

one on top of the stack



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by selecting the top fill.



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And then I'll once again click

on the Add New Fill icon.



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This time around, we

do not want a pattern.



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Instead, we're looking for a gradient.



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So I'll just go ahead and select

that White Black gradient,



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and then I'll go to the Window menu



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and choose the Gradient command



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to bring up the Gradient panel.



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And I'll expand the panel



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by clicking on this double arrow icon,



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and I'll change the Type to Radial.



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And now I need to change

the first and last colors.



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So I'll go over to this swatch right here,



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the one where the RGB values all read 179,



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and I'll drag it and drop it

onto the first color stop.



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And then I'll go up to this color swatch



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where the RGB values all read 77,



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and I'll drag it and drop

it onto the final color stop



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so that we have this very soft gradient,



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as you're seeing here.



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All right, now I want it

to be a little bigger,



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so I'm going to zoom out here.



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And I'm going to switch

to my Gradient tool,



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which you can get by pressing the G key,



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and I'll go ahead and drag

this guy outward, like so.



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I want to be able to see

the entire circle, however,



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because I want it to be

an ellipse in actuality.



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And I'm just going to go

ahead and move this guy



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even farther out until

the ellipse takes up



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almost every bit of the artboard, like so.



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And then finally, I'll

twirl open this fill.



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And I need a little more room to work,



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so I'm going to collapse

the Gradient panel here.



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And then I'll click on the word Opacity,



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and I'll change the Blend Mode to Overlay.



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And that will result in a

little bit of a vignette.



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All right, now I'll press the V key



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to switch back to the Black Arrow tool.



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And I'll press Control + Shift + A



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or Command + Shift + A on a

Mac to deselect the artwork.



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And I'll go ahead and zoom in as well.



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And just so we don't mess anything up,



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I'm going to switch back

to the Layers panel,



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and I'm going to lock this layer.



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And you know what?



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After just a few seconds

of reflection here,



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I don't think this looks

exactly the way I want it to.



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So on second thought, I'm going

to unlock this pattern layer.



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I'll click on the rectangle to select it.



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I'll switch back to the Appearance panel.



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And I'm going to twirl this guy open,



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the very first pattern fill,



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and I'll turn off the Transform Effect



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so that some of the lines

are bigger than others.



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Now I don't want 'em to be quite that big,



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so I'm going to take

this Transform Effect,



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and I'm going to drag it and

drop it at the end of the list,



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not onto that last fill,

but at the end of the list,



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right before the final word Opacity there.



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And I'm going to turn that

Transform Effect back on.



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And I'll click on the word Transform.



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And I'll change both the Horizontal



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and Vertical values to 77%,



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turn on the Preview checkbox,



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and I think that ends up

looking a little better,



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after which point, I'll click OK.



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And then I'll switch

back to the Layers panel.



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And this time, I am going

to lock the pattern layer,



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and I'm going to leave it locked.



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And that, folks, is how

you take a denim pattern



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and make it resemble something



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that might actually be blue jean fabric



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here inside Illustrator.