Jeff Witchel demonstrates the options available in Illustrator when placing text onto a path.
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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.
Very Very NICE !!!!!!
I’m gonee use it TODAY !!
nice and coool thanks for it
How can I make type on a shape without it changing the shapes properties? I applied a gradient mesh to an elliptical shape, then tried to do some type on a path only to have my mesh, stroke, and fill change. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
its great, i really learn a lot in just a couple of minute lessening to it .. thanks
tooooooo grade very good
Thank you all. Glad you enjoyed it.
@ Geoff West: You’re not doing anything wrong. As soon a you change the object to a Type on a Path object, it will lose all of its applied Appearance. You should be able to reapply Attributes such as Fills and Strokes.
first let me say it is a cool way of learning, coz i have used it and now i can do a lot with it. thou before the session was complete it stoped. please check to confirm that immediately after the types of paths on the path tool it just stops!
Good presentation – nice skill builder – thank you!
Loved this tutorial, it covered the type on a path tool completly and clearly. It cleared up all that I could not figure out.
Thanks!
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hi is there any way to type a text in a circle in different ways from the same point
In Illustrator CS5, is there any parallel to InDesign’s ability to change a path mistakenly clicked on with the type on a path tool and thus given the type on a path attribute, to UNASSIGNED or GRAPHIC?