From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Drop shadows and dynamic effects - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Drop shadows and dynamic effects
In this exercise, we're going to apply a few more Drop Shadows, so that you can get a sense of how to edit Drop Shadows inside of Illustrator. We'll also experiment with another variety of dynamic effects, which is the category into which Drop Shadows fit, and that dynamic effect is called Zig Zag. And what it's going to let us do is take these arching whiskers and turn them into wiggly whiskers like you see here. All right, so I am working away inside of White highlights.ai, and I'm going to start things off by going over to the layers panel, and twirling open the black cat layer, and you'll see text at top here. Go ahead and click in the eyeball column to turn it on, so that we can see this group of two blocks of point text. All right, now using the Black Arrow tool, I'll click on the baseline of either of those lines of point text in order to select both of them. Then I'll Shift+click on these whiskers here, which selects all of them, because they're grouped together as well. And…
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Gradients are good1m 15s
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Assigning a gradient fill6m 9s
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Using the gradient annotator7m 31s
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Editing multiple gradients4m 36s
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Establishing symmetrical gradients5m 28s
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Creating a radial gradient5m 46s
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Adjusting the midpoint skew3m 23s
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Mixing gradients with blend modes6m 11s
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Making a transparent gradient6m 42s
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Drop shadows and dynamic effects5m 58s
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Assigning a gradient to editable text5m 42s
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Editing text that includes dynamic effects2m 56s
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Assigning a gradient to a stroke6m 46s
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