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(upbeat electronic music) - [Instructor] Let's take a look at the solution to our next challenge here. So the idea was to create a letter or A4 size document in landscape first. So I'll click the Create new button, and then I'll choose my paper format. I'm going to go for letter this time. This is definitely a landscape document. I'm going to go for CMYK, 300 ppi for the effects. I'll click Create. Now, from here, I need to import my image as a template, so I'll choose File, then I'll choose Place, and I'll go and fetch that document. So it's actually here, house.jpg. And I'm actually left with a choice. Either I would just click the Template option which will do all of the work for me, with the exception of scaling the image to fit the art board bounds, or I can do everything manually if I wanted to. I'll just click the Template option for now because I don't want to spend too much time on this of course. I'll…

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