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Solution: Trace a logo

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Solution: Trace a logo

(soft pinging noise) - [Instructor] Okay, we're back. Did you finish the solution? Did you figure out what you needed to do? Well, hopefully so, and in this movie, I'm going to show you exactly what I would've done to fix this. First of all, don't even pay attention to the type at the bottom. We can fix that later on, because probably, they're not tied to that text anyway. If they are, we can recreate it using a font that's very close later on. That's why I never even worry about typefaces when I'm cleaning up a logo like this. First thing that I'm going to do: Bring up a copy of this with Command or Ctrl + J, and bring up the Levels command, Command or Ctrl + L, and I'm going to set my white point. Where do I think the white point needs to be? Course it's going to be on one of these utensils up here, either the spoon or the fork, so I'm going to click and see which one comes out best. In this case, I might click around a few times just to see what kind of edges I get around the…

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