In the second part of this tutorial, Jeff Witchel continues with some tips on organizing and navigating Illustrator’s drawing tools.
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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.
AT THE END OF THE TUTORIAL YOU MENTIONED A KEY WHICH SOUNDED LIKE THE HYULDAY KEY WHICH MAKES THE IMAGE REPEAT. CANT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE THAT OUT, COULD YOU PLEASE CLARIFY?
Yeah, the sound quality was a little muddied. He actually said the “tilde” key. It’s the key in the upper left of the alpha-numeric area of the QWERTY keyboard, just to the left of the number one key. The key with the ~ on the top of a `.
thanx for the TUTORIAL
great for a newbie like me! Thanks a lot Jeff!!!
Jeff Witchel thank you so much for this training
The HYULDAY Key is actually the squiggly line right above the tab key. Hope that helps!
the squiggly line key is to the right of the left shift key on my mac, on the top left i have a squiggly s looking key!
Thank you so much both of these tut 1-2 are great for a beginner like me, I just dont seem to finde the “HYULDAY KEY” since I have an Icelandic keeboard, but I´ll keep looking:)
Hi All,
That’s the Tilde key and it looks like — ~
Thanks for all the comments.
Jeff
thanks Boo,
this helped me ALOOT.
aha.
i love you dearly. =]
-Kandas