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Converting a linear gradient to a mesh - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Converting a linear gradient to a mesh
In this exercise I'm going to show you how to convert a standard gradient to linear gradient in fact to a gradient mesh object and then clean up that object so that you can actually work on it. I've saved my progress as Completed peppers.ai and we have completed the peppers at this point, so we're now ready to work on the background. In the background it's saved on this layer right here. It's called Gradients. So you might want to go ahead and turn it on. But let me show you for a moment what the final product looks like. Now if I zoom out, you can see that I have this kind of tabletop that's rendered here in white, and then above that I have this area of dark blue, then lighter almost sky blue and then above that we have some yellow. That's all fairly simple at this point gradient mesh object, although it takes a little bit of effort to get there. The shadows started off as radial gradients. They are now gradient mesh objects as well, or at least they will be by time we're done. So…
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Airbrushing with points and handles1m 45s
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Introducing the gradient mesh6m 10s
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Working with the Mesh tool6m 12s
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Lifting colors from a tracing template5m 47s
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Finessing the colors of mesh points4m 17s
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Creating a mesh with the Mesh tool7m 19s
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Adding a gradient mesh to a circle4m 37s
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Adding a gradient mesh to a slender shape8m 7s
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Creating soft and sharp transitions6m 56s
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Converting a linear gradient to a mesh7m 29s
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Editing a linear gradient mesh5m 6s
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Converting a radial gradient to a mesh8m 19s
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Editing a radial gradient mesh8m 15s
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Creating credible cast shadows5m 32s
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