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Using the gradient annotator - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Using the gradient annotator
I have saved my progress as Shiny forehead.ai. In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to the Gradient tool and its partner in crime, the Gradient Annotator. So I'm going to start things off by duplicating the gradient we've already assigned to all the other shapes that require gradients, and they are these. Go ahead and click on anyone of the paths that has a red stroke assigned to it, and then go up to the Select Similar Objects icon up here in the Control panel. Click on the down pointing arrowhead next to it and choose All, just to make sure that you're matching all the attributes, which in this case include both Stroke and Fill Attributes. We don't want those red strokes, so let's get rid of them now by going up here to the Stroke Swatch in the Control panel and changing it to None. And then I'll press the Enter or Return key in order to get rid of that panel, and I'll Shift+Drag right around this area here, around the nose and the brow, and the muzzle in order to select…
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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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