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Converting a radial gradient to a mesh - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Converting a radial gradient to a mesh
I have saved my progress as Distant table top.ai. In this exercise, we are going to take those two radial gradients, both of which are sitting inside of ellipses below the peppers, and we are going to convert them into gradient meshes, and that will allow us to reshape those gradients, so that they better fit their peppers. So they look like more realistic shadows. So first thing I'm going to do just because I decided what I want is the appearance of the light source being directly on back of the two peppers, so that it's casting the shadow from the right pepper to the right and from the left pepper to the left. So I am going to select that left handle left. I am going to grab my Rotate tool. This is purely an aesthetic modification by the way, and I'm going to go ahead and drag the ellipse to a different angle, like so. Then I will scoot that ellipse over a little bit, so that the darkest portion of the radial gradient is sitting directly under the pepper. Now let me show you what's…
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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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