I lost count of how many times I’ve been asked by clients “Can’t you just edit the PDF?” With Acrobat, you can be a lot more confident in answering “Absolutely!”

In this tutorial, Adobe Instructor Jeff Witchel goes through the process of editing text and even images in PDFs. He also looks at extraxting editable text in a PDF of a scanned layout. PDF Editing is just one of many huge improvements you’ll find in recent versions Acrobat DC. See more videos at LayerMagazine.com

Categories: Acrobat, Video Tutorials | Tags: 2015, Acrobat, Adobe Instructor, AdobeAce, CC, DC, Document Cloud, Edit, Editing PDF, Extracting Text, Extracting Images, Jeff Witchel, Secrets, Tips, Training, Tricks

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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Categories: Illustrator, Photoshop, Video Tutorials | Tags: Adobe, Adobe Certified Instructor, AdobeAce, class, Complex Shapes, Illustrator, Jeff Witchel, Layers, learn, Photoshop, Puzzle, Puzzle Piece, secrets, Shape Builder, Shapes, Simple, Tips, Training, Tricks, www.LayersMagazine.com

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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Categories: Illustrator, Video Tutorials | Tags: Adobe, Adobe Instructor, AdobeAce, Border, Brushes, CC, Corners, Custom, Illustrator, Jeff Witchel, Pattern, Pattern Brush, Tips, Tricks, Secrets, Training

You’re working on a magazine Table of Contents which will contain all the stories in the issue. You would also like to highlight various feature stories with a large page number and an image from these important stories, is there a way to do this automatically, so the page numbers will always be correct, even if you move the stories to the other pages?

In this tutorial, Adobe Instructor Jeff Witchel will use a feature every magazine artist should know to simply solve this seemingly impossible problem.

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Categories: InDesign, Video Tutorials | Tags: Adobe, Adobe Expert, Adobe Instructor, AdobeAce, Alternate Glyphs, CC 2015, Character, Character Style, formatting, Glyphs, Glyphs panel, Glyphs popup, InDesign, Jeff Witchel, Secrets, Shading, Styles, Tips, Training, Tricks

Applying alternate glyphs for a specific selected character just got a lot easier using the new popup glyphs feature in InDesign CC 2015. When you hover over a selected character that has alternate glyphs, you can select and apply an alternate right under that character in popup menu.

In this tutorial, Adobe Instructor Jeff Witchel will show how this feature is great for applying swash characters, ordinals, or creating real fractions instantly. And because many of these alternatives are OpenType character formatting, that alternate formatting can be saved as a Character Style, a huge time saver!

For more of Jeff’s Adobe tutorials visit JeffWitchel.net

Categories: Illustrator, Video Tutorials | Tags: Adobe, Adobe Expert, Adobe Instructor, AdobeAce, Alternate Glyphs, CC 2015, Character, Character Style, formatting, Glyphs, Glyphs panel, Glyphs popup, InDesign, Jeff Witchel, Secrets, Shading, Styles, Tips, Training, Tricks

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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Categories: Illustrator, Video Tutorials | Tags: Adobe, Adobe Expert, Adobe Certified Instructor, AdobeAce, Appearance panel, CC 2015, Dash, Dots, Dotted Dash, Effect, Illustrator, Jeff Witchel, Secrets, Stroke, Strokes panel, Tips, Training, Transform, Tricks