everyone thanks for tuning into another illustrator cs6 tutorial
my name is buddy today we're gonna learn how to apply gradients
and out a little bit about them so gradients
are going from one color to another
or going from one color to several
and blaming the way in between and
gradients are used all the time an R
and graphics and all that stuff
so it's a good idea to know how to use them so we're gonna
start out just go ahead and make a square
and I'm gonna put this back out to what it was
to some some color animes gonna go ahead and create my square
and the other thing Lincoln cree is a line segment
and the sly
segment is only gonna have a stroke at it an
what we get there okay me
alright so now
no what we need to do is just go ahead and apply our new gradient that we want
to use
so we go into the swatches panel make sure you have checked the selected
gonna the swatches panel and then you might have some gradients RT on here
if you do you can go ahead and select one of those now create one of those
or you can go into the gradient library click on this button here on the bottom
of the swatches panel
and then come down to gradients and then you got a whole bunch of things that you
can use
let's go to something like medals click on this to get some different metal
collar
and so on now
there is a gradients panel which is right here
click on that I get some more options for my gradient
I can choose to use the Phil or the stroke as a gradient and sense this box
has no stroke on it
man had to use fill Matt Cooke I can click on the green
I got gradient type here linear array deal
Nano camera angle
I can change the angle if I want to
and then
and gray here is reversed Grady and then I'll just switch the gradient back and
forth
select our line saying my hair that's only a basically a stroke
I put this Grady and their or may have to do is switch to here to the stroke
and then I'm going
have to go ahead and apply one other swatches to it
now I've got my gray and their
I can go down to my gradients panel and star messin around in here
with the stroke now we've got a couple different things here we go apply
gradient within stroke
apply Grady L long stroke or play granny across stroke
so if you click on the knees they could do certain things but it's not really in
this one
by a class trip to this you might be able to see a little better
so I just made a huge stroke and you can see that the
grading is working differently the way I clicked the strokes here
so the next thing
there we can check out is how we create our own gradients
you can do this in this gradient panel here so
I'm gonna try to see if they make this little bigger yet there are no
so that way we can see it better and whatcha gonna do
is were on this gradient slider you can move the sliders over
to move where the gradient colors are
I double click on the color I can go ahead and change that if any to
there's purple
all now double click on this 1i could maybe make that purple
and
and should build the switch these you and
and that are you create your gradients if you have one of these and you don't
want it on their
just click and hold on it and polar of and I'll come off
so I can't pull these off if I wanted to
and now I just got a straight gradient going on there
if I wanna and more colors you see it the mouse turns into a
plus it has a plus sign next to click that
can add a spot where I can add another color and their
and there I can do it now we've got these little
I diamond at the top click does a move them around
its gonna increase the amount of color I'm getting from one side or the other
if I move it to the right more purple was gonna dominate the gradient
if I move it to the left left
less purple and more oranges Brown is going to dominate the gradient same but
this side
maybe I want just like sums
small line here in the middle that I can do it
so that's how you go ahead and create your gradients
we learned how to use the library
gradients up here so there's gonna there's a whole buncha gradients
there you can use and then we
pic gradients from the swatches and apply them and
I'm that's pretty much it using gradients is
pretty cool and see if there's anything else I should go over
I'll and I can't forget there
were probably want to show you the gradient tool
which is right here and Aki is G click on that
then you wanna go into feel real quick and make sure
that this says you wanted to say hi grainy
grady an alternator I'm you want because that way it's gonna show
so click on the gradient Bay one at it and then the grading annotator come up
now it's just like using the agree editor that we looked at before
you can drag this here to make a %uh
to move departed the gradient move the colors around
we've got the squares here where we can increase the color these are kinda like
the diamonds
we can move the gradient use in these edges here
week
n hover over the right side here
and when it turned into a box we can drag
and I'll make the gradient smaller and F lee when it turns into a circular
we can move the gradient so it
slants or whatever we're doing there
so
so he's a gradient tool it's a handy
pretty cool now you guys know all about using that you can use it on stroke you
can use it on Phil
and that's it so thanks a lot for watchin give a thumbs up if you liked
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