Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Adjusting the midpoint skew, part of Illustrator CC 2013 One-on-One: Intermediate.
In this movie we'll begin working on the cat's eyes and along the way I'll show…you how to adjust the mid-point skew which…is the very middle point inside of a gradient.…Now as you can see I'm zoomed in on the final version of the artwork.…And the eyes are actually a couple of different shapes.…We have one shape for the highlight inside of the pupil.…And so I've got my black arrow tool selected.…I'll go ahead and click on that shape in order to…select it, and you can see that we've got a radial…gradient that goes to transparency.…I'll show you what's up with that in a future movie.…Then I'll press the Ctrl key or the Cmd key on a Mac, and I'll click.…
Once and then twice in order to select the…shape in back of it, which actually contains a total…of three gradients working together, and you can see…those gradients by switching over here to the Appearance panel.…So we've got a total of three gradient fills stacked on top of each other.…In order to create this luminous effect.…So we'll start by creating this first gradient right there, and…
Author
Deke McClelland
Released
8/22/2013- Creating layers, sublayers, and groups
- Lifting a color and creating a swatch
- Assigning colors to paths inside groups
- Adjusting the stacking order
- Using the Width tool to adjust line weight
- Masking a pattern inside a background
- Assigning and modifying a gradient fill
- Creating a radial gradient
- Drawing a linear spiral with the Polar Grid tool
- Adding a credible 3D cast shadow
- Contouring with the Blob Brush and Eraser
- Creating and painting an overlapping path
- Placing Photoshop images in Illustrator files
- Previewing and printing documents
- Optimizing documents for the web
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome to One-on-One2m 14s
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11. Layers and Groups
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Creating and using sublayers5m 48s
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Creating clipping groups6m 40s
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Working in an isolation mode5m 29s
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12. Swatches and Stacking Order
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Searching swatches by name8m 31s
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Adjusting the stacking order6m 30s
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Pasting in front and in back6m 13s
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Combining multiple fills7m 32s
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13. Strokes, Dashes, and Arrows
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Introducing the Stroke panel4m 49s
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Dashes and arrowheads4m 12s
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14. Gradients and the Gradient Tool
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Creating a radial gradient5m 26s
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Adjusting the midpoint skew3m 31s
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How gradients work1m 3s
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15. Seamlessly Repeating Patterns
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16. Align and Distribute
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17. Pathfinder Operations
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Adding to a compound shape3m 20s
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Using Divide and Minus Back4m 28s
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18. Live Paint and Interlocking Paths
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Introducing Live Paint5m 39s
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19. Placing Photoshop Images
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Working with linked images8m 58s
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Linking vs. embedding images10m 29s
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Unembedding an image3m 30s
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20. Printing a Document
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Placement, scale, and tiling5m 59s
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21. Saving for the Web (and PowerPoint)
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Conclusion
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Until next time54s
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