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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
You’ve been working on a branding project and have already helped your client to pick a color for their logo. Is there a fast way to experiment with other colors that will go with your main corporate color? In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel will demonstrate how to use the Color Guide panel [...]
You want to find the perfect color to simulate metal in an Illustration. Is there a way to find the exact colors you’re looking for in seconds, and add them as Swatches? In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel demonstrates how to use Color Groups and Gradients, in an unexpected way, to find just [...]
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