For this holiday season I dug up an old flash animation I created (in 2002) to wish you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you all for your support and friendship!

Click here to see it!

On my wife’s birthday, my daughter (on the far right) started singing “Happy Birthday” with her belly button… the other kids wanted to get in on the fun, and this is what came up.

This one covers several drawing tools and requests, all listed below the videos. It’s all about giving us options to work the way we like to work, not the way Illustrator tells us to.

Part 1

Part 2

Feature requests: 

• The ability to place several scans/bitmap images at a time
• The ability to move an item to another layer just by clicking on the desired layer
• Line preview with the pen tool (make it an option)
• The ability to toggle between the pen tool, the selection tool, and the subselection tool on the fly
• Somehow indicate that a path is closed or open
• The option to have the fill color show, or not until the path is closed
• Bezigon-like tool
• Deleting a point with the delete key only deletes the point, doesn’t break the path (make it an option!)
• The option to highlight selected path, or not

This has slowed me down since the beginning.

See it here!

Here’s another feature I’d like to see improved in Illustrator.

See it here!

As promised, here is the first of hopefully many such videos showcasing features that I hope Adobe will add to future versions of Illustrator.

See it here!