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Mixing gradients with blend modes - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Mixing gradients with blend modes
All right, one gradient out of the way, two more to go inside of this eye shape here. Each one of the gradients is going to cover up the gradient below it, so we need to create some kind of interaction between the gradients and we are going to do so using a Blend mode. I've saved my progress as First eye gradient.ai. I have the right-hand eye shape selected with my Black Arrow tool. I am going to move over to the Appearance panel, and if you can't see it onscreen, go to the Window menu and choose Appearance or press Shift+F6, and then I want you to go ahead and click on the existing Gradient Fill, notice that we have one fill, which is Radial gradient; we don't have any stroke, and the Radial gradient is covering up the Drop Shadow below it. Now we want to add yet another radial gradient and I am going to do that by dropping down to the Add New Fill icon. I can click on that icon or I can press its keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Slash, or Cmd+Slash on the Mac, in order to create a duplicate…
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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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