In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel takes you through the basics of the Blend tool along with a lot of tips and tricks.
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In this video tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel discusses the OpenType panel, which allows you to easily access Alternate OpenType Glyphs in Adobe Illustrator to create beautiful typography.
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In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel describes how to create a custom Crayon Brush in Adobe Illustrator. See more videos at www.LayersMagazine.com
Designing a beautiful Pattern in Adobe Illustrator couldn’t be simpler.
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel, takes a look at the amazing Pattern creation and editing feature in Illustrator.
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Like other Illustrator users, I was excited to hear that, in CS6, you could finally apply Gradients to Strokes. But when I started to play with this feature, I was blown away with all that it offers.
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel demonstrates all the ins and outs of Gradients on Strokes, including how to quickly create neon lettering.
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Drawing a perfect curly, swirly Stroke with varying widths used to be a tedious task requiring a steady hand and a tremendous amount of ability using the the Pen tool.
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel demonstrate using the Width tool to shape swirly Strokes and other unusual Strokes in seconds.
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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 the right metal colors for the job.
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How do you create interlocking rings in Adobe Illustrator? Years ago, this used to be a true test of any Illustrator user's knowledge of the application.
Recently, a student from a local art college emailed me with a question about interlocking rings, because her class was given this age-old problem as an assignment.
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel demonstrates the old traditional way of solving this "stacking order" problem along with three better ways to solve the problem that didn't exist until the more recent versions of Illustrator.
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Illustrator has an amazing collection of Gradient Libraries, but is there a way to use these beautiful Swatches in InDesign? Well, you can't export them out of Illustrator, because only regular Color Swatches are supported. So, are you out of luck and have to recreate these Gradients in InDesign?
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel reveals a secret backdoor that allows users to bring these beautiful Illustrator Gradients into InDesign instantly.
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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 in Adobe Illustrator to help in the process of selecting a variety of possible color combinations to go with a selected corporate color.
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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.
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 the new Image Trace feature. This new lightning fast, more accurate tracing feature, in CS6, replaces the old Live Trace feature from earlier versions of Illustrator.
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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 differently 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.
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To build an Illustrator document in a way that helps you work faster and more efficiently, nothing stacks up to the Layers panel.
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel goes through all the basics of the Layers panel as well as lots of tips, tricks and secrets to help organize your work and speed up the entire design process. He even tackles some tasks that would not be possible without Layers.
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Imagine being able to Package your Illustrator files the way you can in InDesign. With a simple menu command, all of the Fonts and Linked Images used in the design, along with a copy of the Illustrator file, would be collected into a neat little folder.
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel takes you though the new Package feature in Adobe Illustrator CC.
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You're working on a very complex design in Adobe Illustrator with lots of different kinds of objects. How can you select just the objects you want instantly?
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel will explore the Select menu in Illustrator to show off its powerful selection commands that will make any workflow more efficient.
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In each new version of Illustrator, there’s a list of new features added along with new tools to work with those features. With the number of tools in the Tools panel, sometimes it's hard to find the tools you’re looking for. Wouldn’t it be great if you could create your own custom Tools panel that has just the tools you need when you're working on a particular kind of project?
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel demonstrates how to set up your own custom Tools panel and save it as part of a custom Workspace in Illustrator CC.
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Imagine being able to easily change the look of the corners of any object in Illustrator. That’s exactly what you can do with the Live Corners feature in Adobe Illustrator CC.
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel explores the various options of the Live Corners feature in Illustrator CC to show the huge advantages of working with live, editable corners.
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If you have a difficult time working with the Pen tool, there’s a viable alternative in Illustrator Creative Cloud. The Pencil tool offers a simple way to accurately draw paths like never before. It’s almost as if this powerful tool is reading your mind as you’re rendering perfect curves and corners with ease.
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel demonstrates the little-known settings of the Pencil tool.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve heard “It’s Impossible to Do that in Illustrator” from long-time users and novices alike.
In this tutorial, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel takes a look at using Graphic Styles to help solve some impossible problems in seconds.
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In this tutorial, Adobe Instructor Jeff Witchel demonstrates using the Shape Builder tool, in Adobe Illustrator, as a simple way to create puzzle pieces for use in a Photoshop puzzle project.
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One of the great things about Illustrator is that you can start with simple vector objects and create your own totally custom Brushes.
In this tutorial, Adobe Instructor Jeff Witchel looks at creating custom Pattern Brushes in Adobe Illustrator CC, including the addition of the Corner Options feature, which helps you to easily create beautiful corners for your borders.
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When asked by one of my Kean University students how to create a spiral of dots that get smaller from the outside of the spiral inward, my first thought was to start by drawing a spiral and adding a Dotted Stroke. Makes sense, but is it the best way to accomplish this task?
In this tutorial, Adobe Instructor Jeff Witchel will demonstrate a couple of little-known ways to create dots in a spiral that gets small and smaller as the spiral winds inward. The steps include quite a few tips, tricks, and secrets.
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A video tutorial about new Stroke features in Adobe Illustrator produced by Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel. See more videos at www.LayersMagazine.com