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Lifting colors from a tracing template - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Lifting colors from a tracing template
I've saved my progress as Modified 8-by- 9 mesh, so called by the way because we now have a total of 8 rows and 9 columns inside of our foremost pepper shape. Now, you may notice that I introduced a few colors at those points at which I clicked. So Illustrator just goes ahead and takes that last used color and throws it in at the new location. So you're going to have to sort of watch what you're doing in the final phase. When you're refining your gradient mesh, you want to be careful that you're not introducing colors without noticing it, because you'll probably want to switch out those colors. But right now it's not that big a deal, because none of the colors are particularly accurate where the original pepper is concerned. So let's get a sense of how we make them accurate. I'm going to switch over to the layers panel, just so that we can see that I've got the mesh peppers layer on, and the original photograph layer down here at the bottom, it's on as well. I'm going to press Ctrl+Y…
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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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