Illustrator 7: Wrapping Text Problem

Greetings,

After a wallet busting book purchase, "Adobe Illustrator 7 Classroom In a
Book," I am extremely satisfied. Man, I tell you I have learned TONS. I am
no longer afraid of 'Big Bertha.' In fact....

I have a very detailed question! <gasp>

I am working through the lessons (22 of them, detailed) and I am on lesson
number 09, "Wrapping text around a graphic."

But, I have come to a problem, an I wish the writer's explained this part a
little more in detail; or, maybe they did, and I just don't see it.

I have a document that I am assembling. I have a title, an image of a
mountain bike, a document (word document in .doc format), and an b & w
image of a young lady on a bicycle.

I created the title, then "Placed" the image of the mountain bike into the
left-hand side of the image, just below the title.

Next, I used the rulers and guides to drag down my "dotted" lines that I
will use to align the text, and I have created the columns for the text
(kinda like news paper style), just below the title, to the right of the
mountain bike.

I imported the word document with the advertisement info and "placed" it
into the columns.

I am to import ("place") the other image of the young lady, the b & w, into
the right hand side, overlapping the text just a little on the far right
hand column. When I place the image over the text it says that it has to be
on the top layer; well, it is, and I go to Type -> Wrap -> Make. It wraps
the text around the b & w image just fine.

Problem: I am then to use the direct selection tool to select the unpainted
path around the b & w image of the young lady, and drag the lower portion
of it to make the text "fit" better to the shape of the wheel on the bike
that she is riding-- to make the text outline the wheel, with white space
in between the wheel and the text. (make sense?)

BUT, when I do, the white background of the pasted b & w image overlaps the
text. In other words, I want to drag it down a little to come closer to the
wrapped text.

Here, this is a quick screen shot of what I am trying to say. Use this and
the text to make sense of my useless blabbering:

The *red circle* marks what I am talking about-How can I get the darn wheel
closer to the text without covering it up? Btw, the layers makes no
difference.

<http://www.ais-gwd.com/~fusion/wraptext.gif>

If you read this far, is there any solution for a beginning Illustrator user?

If so, explain please explain in the simplest form possible. I have been
using this program, correctly, for one week.

Thanks a bunch,

Brian

P.S. Sorry this was so damned long. I had no other way to explain it :(



brian j. | [i.c.q. 1057986] fusion(at)greenwood.net
f r e e l a n c e graphic designer/web developer
fusion design <<http://www.ais-gwd.com/~fusion>>

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