Applying blend modes in the Appearance panel

In this movie, I'll show you how…you can assign blend modes to individual fill…and stroke attributes in the appearance panel.…And along the way, I'll show you…how I created this gradient circle.…Now, notice that it progresses…from red to orange to yellow and so forth…around the outside of the circle.…But as you may know, Illustrator only offers…two kinds of gradients: linear and radial.…Now, if we were working in Photoshop,…this style of gradient would be known as angle.…In Illustrator, it's known as nonexistent.…

We also have the colors converting toward the center…from highly colorful to gray.…So how in the world do we pull an effect like this off?…Well, let me show you.…I'm going to go ahead and select the current circle…and press the backspace key or the delete key…on the Mac to get rid of it.…And then, just to clear out my attributes,…I'll tap the D-key to instate my default fill and stroke.…So I have a white fill and a black stroke…as you can see here.…Then, I'll go ahead and select the ellipse tool…from the shape tool flyout menu.…