Steve,
This is a good tutorial! Am I right, there is no audio in the tutorial?
For those of us who can always use more insight into Illustrator and Photoshop, etc., there is yet another great website called :
http://www.lynda.com/
...yes, it is a strange name for a vast teaching site, but in fact it is a wonderful site of tutorials on using many different software programs, including graphics and video for both Windows and Mac. You can open it up and check out the style of teaching on quite a few free lessons. They are delivered on Quicktime video streaming, and the teachers are very good. If you want complete access, the cost is $25 for a month...that is about 75 cents a day for 24 hours of teaching if you are an intensive student! You may sign on, and just take a month now and again to do some intensive study.
Lessons are in short Quicktime movies of maybe 10 to 20 minutes each as you learn the skills. You can stop and repeat anywhere in the lesson.
best
Rod