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Converting a radial gradient to a mesh

Converting a radial gradient to a mesh - Illustrator Tutorial

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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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