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Editing gradients

Editing gradients - After Effects Tutorial

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Editing gradients

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In this chapter, we're going to create a little crosshair display element. And doing so, we're going to learn how to create gradient fills and also work a little bit more with the Pen tool. If you have the exercise files, open up the comp 04-Display*starter. Since we intend to use this as an element in another composition later on, we've just gone ahead and created a relatively small 400x400 pixel composition. And we've created a rounded rectangle or more accurately, a rounded square, as our starting point. I'll select that shape layer, and we'll see the fill and stroke reappear on my toolbar. If I click on Fill, what we see it currently is a solid color with an opacity of 100%. I can confirm that by turning on the transparency grid. Obviously, we can't see through this, which doesn't make it all that great of a crosshair. You need to be able to see through those things to see what you're aiming at. Well, that's okay. You can change the fill color and fill type after the fact. One way…

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