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- Hi, this is Deke McClelland.

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Welcome to the first in my quick-moving,

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high output series, No Drawing Necessary.

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The idea is this.

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Whether you consider yourself an artist

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or you can't even draw a stick figure,

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I mean, come on, you can draw a stick figure,

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you have projects, presentations,

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and just plain ideas that require

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some form of graphic presentation.

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And you need a head start

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in a form of a computer assisted power up

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that'll help you sketch your concept,

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not over the course of a few days or even hours,

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but by your next meeting, which is in like 15 minutes.

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Which is what No Drawing Necessary is all about.

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These are methods that will help you envision your idea

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and share that vision as quickly as possible.

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For example, custom shapes,

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not rectangles and ellipses, but real representational forms

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like the outline of a car or an airplane or an animal

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or even the detailed silhouette of a tree.

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Photoshop contains tons of these things.

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Predefined vector-based path outlines

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known as custom shapes.

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And there are hundreds of them organized

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into groups in the Shapes panel.

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Next, you need to be able to copy your custom shapes

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and paste them into another program,

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in our case, Illustrator,

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which doesn't always work the way it's supposed to,

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but don't worry, I'll show you how to fix that.

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Now, some of Photoshop's custom shapes look

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to be carefully crafted.

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Others exhibit jagged outlines,

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which is why I'm going to show you how to clean

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up those jagged outlines using a very powerful command

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known very simply as Simplify.

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Okay, so just because Photoshop provides hundreds of shapes

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doesn't mean that you're going

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to find the one you're looking for,

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which is why I'm going to show you how to prepare

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a photographic image in Photoshop so that you can convert it

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to your own custom shape using an automated function

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inside Illustrator called Image Trace.

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Now, there are times I love to draw,

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to the point I get lost in it for hours.

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But there are times I just want to get it over with,

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which is why I like it when there's No Drawing Necessary.

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Here's how.