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Have Illustrator Wraps All Wrapped Up.
If you’re used to the way Text Wraps work in InDesign, you may find Illustrator Wraps totally confusing. That’s because Wraps in Illustrator are entirely different than in InDesign and work more like Quark’s Runarounds. In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel demonstrates the ins and outs of Illustrator Wraps. See more videos at [...]
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Turn Pixels Into Vector with Image Trace
You drew a cartoon by hand on paper. After scanning the drawing into Photoshop, how do you turn it into vector to add color to the cartoon in Adobe Illustrator? Or what about turning a photographic image into a beautiful posterized piece of vector art? In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel will discuss [...]
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Generate a Table of Contents Automatically.
Anyone who has tried to manually create a Table of Contents (TOC) for a document, knows what a headache it can be. Not so in InDesign, which can automatically collect all of the information to be included and generate the finished TOC exactly the way you want in an instant. In this tutorial, Adobe Certified [...]
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Let InDesign Do the Math for You.
Most InDesign users do not realize that the measurement fields in various panels and dialog windows are actually calculators that can add, subtract, multiply and divide. In CS6, InDesign can now perform more complex calculations within these fields, for example, 1.25in/2 + 10pts. In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel will demonstrate the use [...]
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Adding Typographically-Correct Strokes.
If you just add a Stroke to type in Adobe Illustrator, the Stroke will be in front of the letterforms, which makes an ugly mess of the type and drives typographers crazy. In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel reveals some secret backdoors to adding typographically-correct Strokes to your type. See more videos at [...]
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