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Establishing symmetrical gradients - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Establishing symmetrical gradients
I've saved my progress as Nose and muzzle.ai. In this exercise, we are going to create some more symmetrical gradients, and the idea here is that we want to create gradients that go in the opposite direction of each other, and then gradients that go in reflective directions. I'll show you what I mean as we work our way through this exercise. Let's start things off using the Black Arrow tool by selecting both of the cheek shapes right here and then the two eyelids, which are the shapes outside of the white eye. So, all four of those shapes should be selected. Then what I want you to do is grab the Gradient tool, which you can get by pressing the G key, of course. And notice we now have four annotators showing up inside of the Illustration window. If I want all four annotators to go in the same direction, then all I have to do, of course, is the same thing we did in the previous exercise. Just drag from a neutral location, and then I'll press the Shift key as I continue to drag so I get…
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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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