Learn all about the Freeform Gradient tool and three awesome tricks that I love dearly about the Freeform Gradient tool. You’ll learn so much about this powerful tool in this short Illustrator tutorial.
Cool gradients I love a lot can be found here: http://www.gradients.io/
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Recording notes:
- Show basic function
- Add/Remove points
- Replacement for the older Gradient Mesh tool
- Double click a node to change color
- Adjust outer circle to adjust color’s “reach”
- Talk about Points vs. Lines
- Use Global colors to update
- PRO TIP: Add gradient to text by creating a rectangle and dragging text over it and clipping mask it
- Start with the Illustrator file with shapes filled with solid colors loaded up + the swatches
- Quick show the gradient site that I was looking at
- Show the solid fill-to-freeform gradient feature
- Use the line feature and select each point and use the eyedropper tool to get the color spot the right way
- Speed through the rest of the colors and stripes
- After speeding through, show how to edit the different freeform spots
- Show the problems with rotating the gradients and then show how to expand the gradients to make it work better
- Show how to sample a color NOT within the Illustrator UI
- Show how to take one of these gradients and Clip text to it to apply the gradient to text as well
- Wrap it out and get out.
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