In this movie, I'll show you how to assign colors to the various points …inside of a gradient mesh, both using the eyedropper tool, which has the advantage …of permitting you to lift colors from the actual tracing template, as well as …manually, by dialing in numerical values here inside the color panel. …Now you can see I have this photograph layer in the background, which contains …the tracing template, as indicated by this little picture icon in the eyeball …column, which means I can see the template either in the preview mode or in …the outline mode. Now, because the pepper is covering up …the template I'll switch to the outline mode by pressing Ctrl Y or Cmd Y on a Mac.…
And then, I'll press the A key in order to switch to the wide arrow tool, and …I'll go ahead and click on one of the anchor points inside the pepper. …And just to make things as obvious as possible, because this point is already a …shade of red, and the change if I were to lift a color from the pepper, would be …pretty modest. I'll go ahead and press the I key to …
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4/30/2013- Setting up angular construction guides
- Kerning and clipping hand-drawn type
- Creating and naming symbols
- Using symbols to simulate master pages
- Creating a gradient mesh
- Using gradients to cast shadows
- Fading artwork with a gradient opacity mask
- Warping and distorting artwork with Liquify and Envelope
- Assembling a seamless pattern brush
- Creating charts and pictographs
- Working in 3D space
Skill Level Advanced
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Q: In the "Assigning colors to mesh points" lesson, I cannot pick up the color of the visible tracing/photograph layer with the Eyedropper tool. What am I missing?
A: Make sure the template file is embedded in your file, not just linked, and try to sample the color again.
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