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Combining the Pencil tool with a drawing tablet

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Combining the Pencil tool with a drawing tablet

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how I was able to trace my turtle using the pencil tool combined with a drawing tablet. Even if you don't have such a device, I think you'll find a lot to learn inside this movie. So I'll go ahead and switch over to that tracing template that I created in the previous movie. And now select the pencil tool. Again, you can get it by pressing the N key. And I'll press the enter key or the return key on the Mac to bring up the pencil tool options dialog box. And I'm going to scoot this fidelity setting one tick mark to the left of smooth, which tends to be my favorite setting. And then we'll go ahead and click okay. All right, now I'm going to zoom in on the turtle's head down here. And armed with my stylus, I'm going to trace around the head and notice how I'm no longer seeing that preview right there. That's a bug. And by the way, as soon as I release, we are going to see the…

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