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Tracing a photographic detail

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Tracing a photographic detail

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to begin work on this castle, namely, we're going to create this archway right here. And by the way, we will be creating this artwork entirely from scratch based on a photographic tracing template. And so the first step is to go up to the file menu and choose new from template, and then I'll go ahead and open that center guides document so that we have a brand new untitled piece of artwork. Now, turns out I don't need the guides, so I'm going to click on the guides later to make it active, and then I'll go up to the view menu, drop all the way down to the guides command, and choose clear guides, and then I'll go up to the file menu and choose the place command, and I'll go ahead and navigate my way to the 12 curvature folder, and I'll grab this guy right here, RockinghamCastle.jpg, and I'll click place. And then, I'll just click anywhere inside the artboard in order to place that…

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