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Adding skewed gradient shadows

Adding skewed gradient shadows - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Adding skewed gradient shadows

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, we're going to add these stylized shadows right here that appear at the intersections of each one of the pedals. We're going to express them as skewed gradients. I'll go ahead and switch over to the relatively shadow-less version of our logo. I'll go ahead and zoom in as well. The first thing we need to do is draw a rectangle. I'm going to go ahead and select a rectangle tool, which you can get of course by pressing the M key. I'll drag from this point right there. Make sure your smart guides are turned on, up to this point. So, we just want the corners of the rectangle to snap exactly into alignment. If you're working along with me and you want to make sure everything's the way it should be, your width value, as you can see in the heads up display needs to be 119.98 points, and the height needs to be 38.96 points. That'll tell you that you have an exact snap. We're not really seeing the rectangle at the front of the stack. That's because I'm working on…

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