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Assigning a gradient to editable text - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Assigning a gradient to editable text
In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to assign a Gradient to live editable type, which is a lot more difficult than it ought to be. Illustrator gives you some pretty poor feedback in this department, and it's even going to seem like you've got to convert the text to outlines in order to fill it with a Gradient, and that's the way a lot of folks recommend you work. That's actually not necessary. You can keep live editable type and you can fill it with a Gradient. You just have to approach things in the right order. You actually have to heap a Gradient on top of the existing Fill, and here's how it works. I've saved my progress as All drop shadows.ai, and I'm going to switch over to the layers panel, so that I can select these lines of type independently of each other, because I need independent control. I want to fill each one of the lines of type with a Radial Gradient, that begins bright in the center and progresses toward darkness on the outside. And if I assign a Gradient to…
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Gradients are good1m 15s
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Assigning a gradient fill6m 9s
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Using the gradient annotator7m 31s
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Editing multiple gradients4m 36s
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Establishing symmetrical gradients5m 28s
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Creating a radial gradient5m 46s
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Adjusting the midpoint skew3m 23s
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Mixing gradients with blend modes6m 11s
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Making a transparent gradient6m 42s
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Drop shadows and dynamic effects5m 58s
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Assigning a gradient to editable text5m 42s
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Editing text that includes dynamic effects2m 56s
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Assigning a gradient to a stroke6m 46s
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