My name is Chris Nielsen. I am a Computer Graphics Instructor at 4 local Colleges here in southern California: Cal State Fullerton, Orange Coast College, Santa Ana College and East LA College. I have an MFA Degree in Illustration from CSUF. I have been teaching at the college level for 14 years now and a lot of my classes involve my home-made instructional videos. NOW, I am uploading some of the past video on my New RU-vid Channel after years of neglecting this option for my students... But, this channel will also serve to help out everyone else out there who will never have the opportunity to take one of my computer graphics classes here in southern California. So... Enjoy! And by the way, I literally have thousands of videos that will be uploaded in the coming months, so please Subscribe, Comment, and come back often for a lot more updates. THANKS! - Chris Nielsen
I was working on a job in InDesign today, and I needed to do exactly this. As someone who grew up with Quark, using the "save as greyscale TIF" method a lot, I figured InDesign must have a similar feature. I didn't think to try clicking on the direct selection tool to try tinting the shadows, though - that was the missing piece of the puzzle for me. Thanks very much for the assist! :)
Hi Sensei!! I'm glad you're still uploading videos and teaching art. I took your class about 2 or 3 years ago. Since then I have been working on my art portfolio and pursuing tech art as my career. Thanks for being an amazing teacher. You've inspired me to be kind and follow my dreams wherever I go!
Clear and great instructions on the why and hows of the AI Symbol tool. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and teaching skills of this tool. I am definitely following your YT channel.
I've been so confused by this issue with my own document and your video really helped me understand it one step at a time. Thank you for this video! Bless you!
I have 1000 single pages in a document. Can you tell me how to make only the odd pages have numbers on them... But the numbers on those odd pages should be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, etc…. all the way to 500? What would be the easiest way to do this? I already know how to create a master page and format the page number as a “insert special character>marker>current page number”.
Wow! That is quite a request. What I would do is go to the Pages Panel and CREATE A NEW PARENT (Master Page called B - NEW PAGE NUMBERS). On that Parent (Master Page), make the Text Frame with the "Insert Special Character>Marker>Current Page Number. Then, go to the Pop Up Menu on the Pages Panel and Choose "APPLY PARENT TO PAGES". In the Pop Up Window, Choose the "B" Parent Page (Master Page) and then type in the page numbers in the "TO PAGE" Window. You can apply your Parent Page to all the pages you list there, just by separating each page number with a Comma. Hope that helps.
@@pentoolartist Thank you for your reply. However, when I try to do what you suggest, the odd pages are still numbered in odd sequence 1,3,5,7,9, etc... Because on master B, the "special character (current page number)" causes the numbers to be listed the same as the page number of the document. Does that make sense?
@@caycug1 Now that you described it, YES... that does make sense because the Master Page is still recognizing the physical page number that is being listed on the Pages Panel. I can't think of anything else except to Number those Pages MANUALLY..... with individual text frames and numbers that you type in yourself.
One thing I saw that definitely needs changed is the "Appearance of Black" settings. If you keep this setting, any black type that you create will be in all four colors, which is a nightmare for the printer, and something they will probably send back to you for corrections or charge you to change. All type should only be in 100% black. If people want a rich black background, they can make a new swatch of 30% Cyan, 20% Magenta, 20% Yellow, and 100% Black. This makes a great neutral gray color with the first three colors and the solid black makes it pop. I hope this helps people get this setting correct, I've seen too many young designers get caught up in having to go back and fix type at the last minute when the pressmen are standing around waiting to get the press going.
Doesn't work when I've deliberately resized an image to a smaller size so that it automatically moves and fits into space on the bottom of the preceding page. From there, I cannot center it for the life of me.
The only thing I can think of is to go to WINDOW MENU - NEW WORKSPACE and Save your Set up there as a New Workspace. Then, each time you come back in, select that workspace and go from there.
When I click option while making a shape to have it create from the centre, once I release my mouse to make the shape, the actual shape turns out a bit smaller. It's very strange. Any idea what might be going on there?
Preset Syncing Is if your using say a laptop sometimes, maybe pc another and you created in example brushes . When u use each device The cloud will let you use the brushes made or something else to be use in all computers instead of using a flashdrive to plug into another system
Love these videos! I don't suppose you share the files you're using in the background to draw on top of when practicing? (either freely available or to purchase?) Thanks!
I do share all the files with the students who are in my digital media classes. I would with you as well, but I don't want to advertise my email here in a comment. But I don't know how else I could get in touch with you, unless you list your email here. Not sure if that is safe in such an open space here, though....
Easily a 10/10 tutorial… I appreciate you taking the time to put this together, thank you… This really helped me design better quality 2D game assets & do so a lot faster 👏
Hello Chris!!! I want to thank You for this great video. Thanks to You I understood what is exactly layer and how to use it. I need Your help. I have 6 books and always I am looking to bring all books to the highest Pro level that I can effort. So my question is If I have book with 220 Pages, how have to set up the layers? almost 70% have 3 subjects on the page: 1.Music Notation material 2.Graphic and 3.Tabs with the label After this video I figure out that all my pages have only 1 Layer and all subjects are on this layer. If this was a made from Professional, how have to be set up? Every subject to be on separated layer (10 Subjects - 10 layers)or to have 2 layers, each for every page? Or in any other order. I will be very happy to read Your answer!. Thanks for Your time for me this video moved mountains in my mind that I never thinking before!
Great video. Great techniques you're showing. People who enjoy coloring line-art could consider to take up a side-job as a "Flatter" (or "Flattener") for comic book artists.
Thank you so much for this. I was so lost on the concept until I found this video. The explanation in my class made it sound like three separate photos. I would’ve definitely messed this up if it wasn’t for you. I couldn’t find any other examples on the web. Thanks for doing this!
You are CORRECT! The equivalent of OPTION-DELETE on a MAC is.... ALT KEY and the BACKSPACE KEY on a PC. The reason I mentioned the Mac Keyboard Shortcut is because I am recording on my Mac and ALL the computer graphics classes I have taught have always been in MAC LABS.... The best way to think about my demos is that the COMMAND KEY on a Mac is the CONTROL KEY on a PC. And the OPTION KEY on a Mac is the ALT KEY on a PC. Good Luck!
.0139 is the INCHES equivalent of 1 POINT in measurement... not pixels. The size of a pixel is based on the Resolution of the file, but I appreciate your added information here, jonnyjpg. THANKS!@@jonnyjpg_
@@pentoolartist hi! I am a little concerned about this setting. My set up currently has px as the default not pt. To change this to your recommendation I would have to change the default unit for all media to be pt instead of px. What is the risk of doing this?
Obviously you don’t use styles. When creating technical documents or books styles are a must. You make a style and call it footnote. Give all your requirements to that style such as font, font style and use the tab setting to get the space between number and text. Styles saves all the fiddle farting around you were trying to do it. Creating a style takes a minute or two and then on assign it to the footnote.
Obviously you didn't see my Tutorial Video all about STYLES. I did not create this video for you. I created these videos for my BEGINNING Students who have NEVER used Adobe InDesign before.... so, I take it easy with them. YOU are not my student. If you can do better, then please go ahead and make your own tutorials. I checked out your page and you have nothing. But thank you for the advice anyway....
Ummm... I don't remember making this just for you. I made these videos for my Introduction to InDesign students. If you can do better, then go make your own.
I am trying to color a pencil drawing I drew but it seems no matter what tool I use it doesn’t detect any of the lines so it will not select anything I try to color. Anyone know of a way around this?
Your Pencil Drawing will NOT have enough Contrast for most selection tools to detect for making those selections you need. I would suggest that you SET THE LAYER BLENDING MODE on your Pencil Drawing Layer to MULTIPLY. That will make the light areas Transparent to Photoshop. Then, you LOCK that layer and Create New Layers UNDERNEATH your drawing layer and more freely paint on those layers underneath your drawing. You do this much like coloring an Animation Cell... GOOD LUCK!
