From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
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Using multiple fills to create textures - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
Using multiple fills to create textures
Let's take a look at one more real- world example about why we might want to apply multiple fills to a single object using appearances inside of Illustrator. Let's take another look at this congratulations card that we created earlier. We added a really nice border using multiple stroke attributes. Well, now in this file called congrats_2, we actually want to wake up the background somewhat to this file. Let's add some kind of a texture to the nice bland little light yellow color that we have going on inside of the background. Now, what we are going to do here is actually something quite interesting. We know that inside of Illustrator, we have three different types of fills that we can apply as attributes to an object. We have solid colors, which we are using right here. We can also add patterns and we can add gradients. So what we are going to do in this example is actually create a single object that has three different fills-- a solid-color fill, a pattern fill, and the gradient…
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Understanding attribute stacking order6m 45s
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Targeting individual object attributes7m 32s
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Adding multiple attributes to a single object9m 31s
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Modifying appearances with Live Effects7m 11s
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Using multiple strokes to create a border design4m 36s
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Using multiple strokes to create a map5m 52s
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Using multiple fills to mix spot colors4m 59s
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Using multiple fills to create textures4m 6s
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The all-important Appearance panel37s
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