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Updating a photographic template

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Updating a photographic template

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Alright now in this stage we need to begin shading the face so its darker over here on the right hand side, and to do that properly we need to recall the photographic template. The problem is if I go and switch back to my image in progress and I turn the template on, once again this photo layer right here, by clicking in this left hand column. And then I go ahead and press Ctrl+Y or Cmd+Y on the MAC, so that we are working in the outline mode so that we can see through the paths to the template below. The template is no longer aligned to the face and that's because I enlarged the face back in the previous chapter. So what we're going to do in this movie is scale the template and we're going to slightly scale the head so that both the template and the drawing match. So the first thing that we need to do is unlock that photo layer so that we can gain access to the contents of that layer. I'm also going to twirl it open, so that we can see that photograph right there. And I'm going to…

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