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15 Adobe Illustrator tutorials round-up – part 1 | INDEZINER — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:27:07 +0000

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By: Bridget

Bridget — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:27:15 +0000

Part 1 and 2 very helpful and fast! Thanks for posting this.

By: Bobby P

Bobby P — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:21:52 +0000

Because I am deaf and half blind I didn’t get as much as other people but thank you for the effort. Adobe looks exciting/

By: Bless

Bless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:10:00 +0000

Thank you so much those short cuts are on the money

By: Jeff Witchel

Jeff Witchel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:38:39 +0000

Dear A-god,

Glad you enjoyed my accent so much.

Best,

Jeff

By: A-god

A-god — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:17:01 +0000

DRAWRING tools???

and you know know your name is simon…

By: Mortelini

Mortelini — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:26:41 +0000

Easy to understand. I learned quite a bit. Thanks.

By: Jeff Witchel

Jeff Witchel — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:18:21 +0000

Hi Tim,

If you click and hold on any tool with a small arrow to to its lower right, you should have a popup menu that will reveal other tools. If you do not, you could be having a problem with the Tools panel and you may want to post a question on the layers Forum.

http://www.layersmagazine.com/forum/

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:44:31 +0000

hey for some reason there’s no pop-up menu when I click the tools. How do I fix this?

By: Jeff Witchel

Jeff Witchel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:01:36 +0000

Hi Gail,

Glad you like the tips!

Funny that you mentioned the Spiral tool. There are a bunch of Spiral tool tips coming in Part 2 of Illustrator Drawing Tool Tips.

You can also find an old tutorial that I wrote about Spirals at the following link http://www.layersmagazine.com/illustrator-spiral-tool.html

By the way, to draw a “tighter” Spiral, click with the Spiral tool and increase the Decay closer to 100%. At 100%, there is no Decay and the Spiral will look like a circle even though it’s not.

Happy spiraling!

Jeff

By: Gail McKay

Gail McKay — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:09:07 +0000

Your tips are great! Can you give us a clue about the Spiral Tool? I want a tight spiral, and I can only get the open one.

By: L.C.D.

L.C.D. — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:23:11 +0000

Thank you that really gave me a refresher.