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Certified Teacher: Illustrator, Animate, Photoshop, and Premiere
Kyle S.

5.0 (534 ratings)

1,529 hours tutoring

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I graduated from Northwestern University and worked in advertising as Web sites were just beginning to be an essential business platform. I worked in graphic design, print production, web sites, video production and editing. I also love animation using Adobe products. I currently teach Adobe software to high school students and was awarded teacher of the year in 2019. I am also certified to teach English, Debate, Public Speaking, and Forensics (Competitive Acting). My background all ties...

I graduated from Northwestern University and worked in advertising as Web sites were just beginning to be an essential business platform. I worked in graphic design, print production, web sites, video production and editing. I also love animation using Adobe products. I currently teach Adobe software to high school students and was awarded teacher of the year in 2019. I am also certified to teach English, Debate, Public Speaking, and Forensics (Competitive Acting). My background all ties together as I love the art of storytelling. I enjoy a great book as much as I love an engaging movie. My goal is to teach students how to tell stories well using many different mediums.

I love teaching people how to use technology to be creative. I hope I can help you learn to be creative for a living.

I teach every day and I worked in several advertising agencies. I not only know how to use the technology, but I know how to make money doing it. I’m very patient and love getting to know people. When I can help someone achieve their dream, I think I’m as excited as they are.

I started drawing when I was very young. My friends and I created our own comic books and specialized in visual storytelling. If I wasn’t a multimedia teacher, I would be an art teacher. Many times I will assign traditional assignments that lead into the computer version. This helps those not as comfortable with the computer to understand concepts and then see how they translate to doing something similar with technology.

I promise you that if you partner with me as your creative tutor, I will make sure I am 100 percent about your success. I have a good sense of humor and many of my students stay in touch with me to share their latest work. My success will be your success.

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Education

Northwestern University
Communications
  • Licensed teacher

Policies

  • Hourly Rate: $50
  • Rate details: Depending on the job, I may ask that we have a free 30 minute session so I can understand what your goals are and what you want to accomplish. If I can't help you, I will not charge you.
  • Lesson cancellation: 4 hours notice required

  • Background check passed on 3/2/2021

  • Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

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Approved Subjects

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash

I teach Adobe Animate which is what Flash is now. I teach students how to utilize Animate with photos and digital art they create in Adobe Illustrator. My classes have challenges that will allow students to learn to tell stories with animations and add in their own sound and music. We utilize many of our animations in our videos we create in Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects.
Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is the best tool for learning to draw digitally. Drawing in illustrator will result in high resolution vector art that is best for logos, animation, and several other very detailed outputs. I utilize Illustrator for developing characters that I can then utilize in Adobe Premiere and Adobe Animate. I find the other applications have illustration tools, but they are not as advanced as Adobe Illustrator. I typically set up a 30 minute meet and greet with my students so they can ask questions and we can get to know each other. This will give you a chance to decide if I am the right tutor for you. And it will give me a chance to assess your skills and see where I can add value. I then refund the first 30 minutes so you can make an informed decision about you or your child's education.
Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is one of my favorite creative applications. I really enjoy teaching students how to use Photoshop to enhance their photography. I encourage my students to send me what they want to do ahead of time so I can structure a lesson that will teach them exactly what they need to know. Photoshop does some new and exciting things that we can also delve into with some of the more experienced students. I typically schedule a 30 minute session for students to get to know me. This also allows me to assess their skills and see where I can add value. I then refund this meet and greet and you can decide if you want to continue.
Animation

Animation

I begin animation lessons with flip books and a bit of history about animation. I then show how to use Adobe products to create animations. I prefer to use Adobe Animate and then add to videos I create in Adobe Premiere and After Effects. I do find it advantageous if you learn to use Photoshop and Illustrator for tools to create images to import into Adobe Animate.
Video Production

Video Production

I've been working with Adobe Premiere for 8 years now. I teach high school students how to create their own videos and add music and effects to it. I specialize in helping students learn to tell stories with the camera. We improve those stories using Adobe Premiere and After Effects. We also create images and graphics for our videos utilizing Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. We build animations utilizing Adobe Animate.

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A True Expert

Rarely are we lucky enough to have an industry professional who also teaches like a pro. That's almost unheard of. I went from 0 to 60 in a few lessons, and my confidence grows daily. Can't say enough about how grateful I am!

Erin, 17 lessons with Kyle

GREAT Tutor

Kyle has been working with my son. They are two sessions in and the progress is EXTREMELY noticeable. Kyle breaks down the steps and softwares in a patient/successful way. His approach is not "iron hand" instead it's have fun with what illustrator can do. You learn the functions, which is important but you learn it in a fun exciting way.

Tamika, 1 lesson with Kyle

Helpful and very skilled tutor

Kyle was helpful and tailored my Illustrator lesson to specifically what I wanted to learn. He is very knowledgeable and in only one lesson he taught me several new tools to bring my designs to life. I highly recommend working with him!

Emilee, 1 lesson with Kyle

Excellent Adobe Premiere Tutor!

Hello I really enjoyed working with Kyle on keyframes and color matts! Efficient ways to get clips to be the same length and to have music match the as specific length. He is a great teacher!

Carolyn, 4 lessons with Kyle

Very helpful!

Kyle was great! He walked me through things that were confusing for me, showed me several shortcuts to help me be more efficient and went over a few new concepts to strengthen and improve my workflow. Overall, great to work with!

Brandi, 1 lesson with Kyle

Very helpful with Adobe After Effects!

I hired Kyle to teach me how to perform some specific animations in Adobe After Effects. He is very knowledgable on how to use to software and explained everything step by step. I highly recommend working with him if you need help with specific animations for a project!

Noah, 1 lesson with Kyle

Great teacher

I’ve been using Premiere Pro for several years but Kyle is taking my editing to another level. In two sessions he’s increased my knowledge exponentially. Thank you Kyle

Kerry, 3 lessons with Kyle

Very helpful

Kyle helped me complete a project in illustrator. He was patient and had good advice to make the program easier. I would definitely have another lesson with him.

Janika, 1 lesson with Kyle

Review of getting to know my Wyzant tutor

Amazing conversation! Even though the chat was two hours long, I enjoyed how my tutor showed me what instructions/steps to learn and later, let him cooperate with me and understood one, how confused I was getting a little bit, and two, what I steps I had to know and follow along in order get complete my assignment(s).

Noah, 6 lessons with Kyle

great teacher - very knowledgeable

If I could give Kyle 6 stars I would - kinda amazed what we are able to get done in one hour. I’m the past I’ve done video work through UpWork and this experience with Kyle has been about 10x better.

David, 2 lessons with Kyle
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