Adobe Tutorials

These are a series of tutorials I wrote when I was an information graphic artist at the San Antonio Express-News. They are designed to teach how to set up a template in Adobe Illustrator and use it to quickly and efficiently create information graphics for use in print and online.

Note: These tutorials make use of a lot of images, so this part of the site is probably best viewed on a desktop computer or tablet with at least a WiFi connection.

• Practical Adobe Illustrator
• Step 1: Setting Up the Workspace
• Step 2: Paragraph Styles, Part 1
• Step 3: Paragraph Styles, Part 2
• Step 4: Character Styles
• Step 5: Creating a Color Palette
• Step 6: Graphic Styles
• Step 7: Symbols
• Step 8: Graphic Conversions
• Step 9: Create a Locator Map from a Google Map
• Step 10: Create Graphs – Pie Chart