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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to take our totally weird and distorted fish and clean it up a little bit so it's not so distorted. Now, there's one way to preview distortion and it requires just a couple of steps. First, let's switch to object mode. Come up to our little texture area here and click on new. Where it says blank, switch it to a color grid and name it just by clicking on untitled, ColorGrid. That's pretty good. Now, click on okay. That will generate this cool little color grid with a bunch of numbers on it. Now, click on materials tab. If our fish does not have a material, you can go ahead and make a new one and under base color, click this little yellow dot and go to image texture, click the dropdown right here and go to color grid. At first, you may not see anything, but if I hold down my middle mouse, I can drag this little bar here at the top or I can just move this over to get some…

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