Illustrator Newsletter - May 2022

[Srishti Bali]

The Adobe Community Team wishes a cheerful June to all of you. 

In this edition of the newsletter, you will find links to tutorials by Paul Trani, quick tips by  @Anshul_Saini  and Rishabh_Tiwari, live stream updates from Andrew Hochradel, and a feature on one of our oldest members in the Adobe Community Mike Gondek. 

For previous versions of the newsletter, see the Adobe Illustrator Newsletter Home page.

Adobe Community Professionals 

Mike Gondek joined the Adobe family on ‎‎Feb 05, 2010. We are amazed at the breadth of his expertise in Illustrator. His expertise in Illustrator has helped millions of users that visit our community. 

Let's know more about him in his own words:- 

My start in the graphics industry was at a very early age setting hot metal and phototype, up until high school. In 1987 as a student at IIT, I was setting a news item for the school newspaper about a new product arriving at the micro lab called Adobe Illustrator. This new software fascinated me, and I stayed in the Microlab until closing time. The manager offered me a job in the Microlab and my daily usage of Adobe products started then. My first job out of college was for an imagesetter reseller, as their Advertising Manager. I designed their print advertising, trained on new installations, provided photography, and designed postscript typefaces for sale. While training at a packaging design agency, I discovered my love of consumer packaging design, regulatory, and printing processes. This was the golden age of computer graphics and I posted tips often to magazines like MacUser, MacChicago & MacWorld. Being a beta tester for Adobe was a great privilege to help shape the software during those years. Hardware and software were advancing so quickly at this time. The Chicago Ad Agency I was at promoted me to Creative Technologies Director. This entailed managing a computer lab with the latest hardware & software and taking over help desk calls related to creative issues & Adobe software. After the new millennium, I was a contractor doing Adobe Certified Training and experienced many of the major cities across our great country. Through my website interesting jobs came my way such as image analysis for the US Navy Pearl Harbor, to have a truckload of automotive rims delivered to my garage. After getting married I returned to full-time jobs often in the packaging design industry. My introduction to UI/UX came while working at Redbox and helping design their vending kiosk navigation. Currently am a Web UI/UX Designer for a University. This fits me well as have always loved designing clean, organized navigation and improving the user experience. Thank you Adobe for your products has been the #1 tools in my career. Also thanks to Kai Krause who brought innovation to the computer graphics industry.

Some articles I published:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/adobe-iustrator-appearance-live-effects-michael-gondek/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nutrition-facts-pdp-tools-consumer-packaging-design-michael-gondek/?=

https://thedieline.com/blog/2017/2/21/a-brief-history-of-packaging-regulations-and-how-they-affect-d...

https://www.thinkkaleidoscope.com/blog/nutrition-facts-update/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gondek-81669422/

To know more about our Adobe Community Professionals, click here.

Behance Live Stream Updates

Check out the latest Pride Design Challenge by Andrew Hochradel where he shares various tips and tricks to create Posters for Pride month. 

Andrew Hochradel is a content creator, speaker, and brand strategist with a passion for making creative education entertaining, accessible, and informative. You can follow him on social media or by subscribing AdobeLive.

Website: Hoch.co
Social Media: @HochDotCo

For more information on upcoming Creative Challenges, please click here.

Adobe Illustrator update 26.3.1

The Adobe Illustrator version 26.3.1 brings to you the option to add perspective to artwork, stability fixes, and more! 

If you wanna know more about these features and bug fixes, please check out this page: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/illustrator-26-3-1-add-perspective-to-artwork...

Troubleshooting tips

Do you get stuck or frustrated when somebody asks you to share a screen recording or files for issue diagnosis? Check out these small tutorials created by @Anshul_Saini and Rishabh_Tiwari  

• Screen record an issue on Windows & macOS for sharing
• Share your files in 6 simple steps. 

Trending Issues

• Issue:- Error 205 while launching Adobe apps. 
  Action:- Bug has been logged with our engineering team for further investigation.
  Workaround:- Sign out and sign in back to the Creative Cloud Desktop app. For more details please check out this page. 
• Issue:- Image (placed PNGs) color changes after reopening the document. 
  Action:- Bug has been logged with our engineering team for further investigation.
  Workaround:- Embed images instead of "Include link files" while saving a document. 
  UserVoice Link: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/45228802-illust... 
  
• Issue:- Illustrator not responding while creating new files and opening existing files. 
  Action:- Bug has been logged with our engineering team for further investigation.
  Workaround:- In multiple cases, we have found that the issue is related to third-party fonts. Clearing fonts caches, validating fonts, and removing 3rd Party fonts may help in resolving this issue. The steps are shared here.

Note: If you don't have that version, please send a DM to Anshul Saini or Srishti Bali. 

Tutorials

• Check out new 3D enhancements with Paul Trani.
  
  

Paul Trani is our Principal Worldwide Design Evangelist for Creative Cloud apps. With experience spanning more than 30 years, he has become a wizard when it comes to Illustrator.

Check out his recent Design Master Class Session and subscribe to Adobe live for upcoming sessions. 

https://www.behance.net/paultrani/livestreams

https://twitter.com/paultrani

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