Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating soft and sharp transitions, part of Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Mastery.
In this movie, I'll show you how to soften transitions inside of a very …complicated gradient mesh pattern. And I'll also show you how to sharpen …transitions, in case that's what you want to do. …Now in our case, the reason things are so weird. …I'll just click off the shape here for a moment so I can show you. …Notice that we have these little slivers of color. …And that's the function of the fact that the various call lines are overlapping …each other in an unfortunate way. So, this guy that starts is the third to …last column line ends up overlapping the last two and then going back to its …proper location and then the second to last line tucks in between the other two …and then the very last one goes ahead and travels all the way up above the other …two and a little bit to the left. So, we need to take care of that problem, …and there's a couple ways to do that. One, of course, is to switch to the wide …arrow tool by pressing the A key, and I'll click on an anchor point here in …order to select it independently of the other ones.…
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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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33. Using Smart Guides
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Welcome to One-on-One2m 2s
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34. Working with Symbols
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Creating and naming symbols6m 42s
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Introducing 9-slice scaling4m 31s
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35. Gradient Mesh
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Creating a gradient mesh4m 23s
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36. Opacity Masks
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Introducing opacity masks6m 24s
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37. Liquify and Envelope
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Introducing the Warp tool7m 50s
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38. Pattern Brushes
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39. Charts and Pictographs
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40. 3D Effects
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Conclusion
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See ya52s
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