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Assigning and modifying a gradient

Assigning and modifying a gradient - Illustrator Tutorial

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Assigning and modifying a gradient

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- [Voiceover] All right, so here we are looking at one of the popular emojis included with Apple devices. And I've heard from a lot of folks who are looking for high resolution versions of these things for printing on t-shirts, or poster, or what have you. But the truth of the matter is that these things are actually low res paint files. They measure 160 pixels wide by 160 pixels tall. And that includes this transparent region around the face. So what I've done is I've upsampled this image so that we can trace it inside of Illustrator. And that way, we'll have a scalable vector based design that you can do anything that you want with. And it's all shining and glistening and that's because, every single path outline is filled and stroked with gradience. And then, later on, we'll go ahead and draw our own custom emoji unlike anything else that's out there. Because, after all, not everyday is deserving of this one. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and switch over to this base document…

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