00:01:02 So the first step is to go up to the File menu
00:01:04 and choose New from Template,
00:01:05 or once again, you have that keyboard shortcut
00:01:07 of ctrl + shift + N, or cmd + shift + N on a Mac,
00:01:11 then locate your center guides template
00:01:13 and click on the New button in order to create it.
00:01:15 Now in this case we don't really need the guides,
00:01:18 so I'm going to get rid of them
00:01:19 by going up to the View menu,
00:01:21 choosing Guides, and then choosing Clear Guides.
00:01:25 Alright, now I'll go ahead and click on the guides layer
00:01:27 to make it active, and I'll place my image
00:01:29 by going to the File menu and choosing the Place command,
00:01:32 or you have that fairly predictable keyboard shortcut
00:01:35 of ctrl + shift + P, or cmd + shift + P on a Mac.
00:01:39 Alright, now if you're working along with me
00:01:41 I've got the pencil sketch ready and waiting,
00:01:43 Pencil sketch.jpg.
00:01:45 Go ahead and select it, and then click the Place button.
00:01:48 Now notice at this point you could make it a template
00:01:51 just by turning on the Template checkbox,
00:01:53 but that tends to be a fairly messy experience
00:01:56 and it doesn't allow you to control the placement
00:01:58 or the scale of the template.
00:02:00 So just go ahead and click the Place button.
00:02:02 That will load the cursor with the image,
00:02:04 as we're seeing here.
00:02:05 At which point just go ahead and click
00:02:07 in order to place the image inside the document.
00:02:10 Now what you want to do
00:02:11 is go up here to the control panel,
00:02:13 make sure that the alignment option
00:02:14 is set to Align to Artboard,
00:02:16 and then click on each of the Center icons.
00:02:18 First Horizontal Align Center,
00:02:20 and then Vertical Align Center.
00:02:23 Alright, now click on the word Transform
00:02:25 in order to bring up the Transform panel.
00:02:27 And make sure the center point is selected
00:02:29 over here in the Reference Point matrix.
00:02:32 Then turn on the link, so that we're constraining
00:02:34 the width and height values to each other.
00:02:36 And that will allow us to proportionally resize the image.
00:02:40 At which point I'm going to change
00:02:41 the width value to 940 points.
00:02:44 And that will change the height value in kind.
00:02:47 Alright, now you can press the escape key
00:02:48 in order to hide that panel.
00:02:50 Next what you want to do is double-click
00:02:52 in an empty portion of this guides layer
00:02:54 in order to bring up the Layer Options dialog box.
00:02:57 Let's go ahead and call this layer template,
00:02:59 since that's what it is.
00:03:01 And you also want to turn on
00:03:02 the Template checkbox right here.
00:03:04 And that'll go ahead and automatically dim the image to 50%,
00:03:07 which is going to work out great.
00:03:09 You can change that value if you want to,
00:03:10 but 50% works well for this specific template.
00:03:14 So I'll go ahead and click OK
00:03:16 in order to create that new tracing template.
00:03:18 At which point I can go ahead
00:03:19 and begin drawing with the Pencil Tool
00:03:21 here on the drawing layer.
00:03:23 Which is exactly what we'll be doing
00:03:25 by the way, starting in the next movie.