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Adjusting color stops

Adjusting color stops - Illustrator Tutorial

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

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Adjusting color stops

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- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you how to adjust the position as well as the color of your color stops. In order to create a gradient that better matches the tracing template. And also how to save your custom gradient as a swatch. Now, for safety's sake, I'm going to switch away from my eye dropper, because otherwise I might accidentally click something like the artboard and upset all the colors inside my selected circle. So I'll just go ahead and press Control + Z, or Command + Z on the Mac, to undo that change, and I'll press the V key to switch back to the black arrow tool. Alright now notice if I press Control + Y, or Command + Y on the Mac, to switch to the outline mode, that just about all of the face is filled with that very first color. In fact I figured about the first 80% is just that very light shade of orange, and it's only that final 20% where we start transitioning to darker shades. So, I'm going to press Control + Y, or Command + Y on a Mac, to switch back to the…

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