Experimenting with the settings and options for Illustrator’s Blend Tool.
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Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since. Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination. Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the "go to" guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he's provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
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Thank you so much!! – this is magnificent – I can’t get the web preview to work – I’m using windows 7 – I’m following your steps – I can make a .swf and bring it in to After Effects – web preview not working – any known issues?
It’s in the wrong category – should be under Illustrator. Also, the export dialog box might be different for some viewers. One might need to select Export AI Layers to SWF Frames, then select the Advanced button to configure as you have.
It’s posted under the wrong category – should be Illustrator. Also, on must Export AI layers to SWF frames (drop down menu) then choose Advance to make the settings like the tutorial.
Hi Jim,
Not that I know of.
But I’m a Mac guy.
You may want to post your question on the Layers Forum. There are lots of experts using PCs there. http://www.layersmagazine.com/forum
Hope this helps!
Jeff
Hey Jeff, I actually figured it out. Illustrator tries to use FireFox as the web preview browser and it’s not my default – so Mozilla crashes – If I have FF open prior to clicking web preview then all is fine – suppose I could change my default browser but I already have all of my favorites bar all set up in IE – not worth the time right now – Windows huh? – yikes – Nothing in Properites panel to set default web browser in AI – Thanks again for this extremely useful tutorial – I’ve been messing with it for two days straight – hopefully I’ll eventually make something cool.
Im using a Mac and once I get to the settings for flash it won’t let me check the loop option or change the amount of frames. Do you have any idea why I can’t make it an animation file?
That was an awesome tutorial thanks for the cool trick!
Why I don’t have the same options panel ? Can I ask the version that you used?
It’s a very good tutorial, but I can export SWF animation. Because I don’t have the same SWF Options panel.
Hi All,
If you press Advanced in the window that opens, you’ll see exactly the same info that’s in the tutorial.
Sorry!
Jeff
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Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much!!!!