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Radial gradients

Radial gradients - Illustrator Tutorial

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Radial gradients

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- [Instructor] Continuing on here from the previous movie where we were looking at linear gradients, we're now going to take a look at radial gradients. So I'm going to hold down my cmd key, that would be ctrl on Windows, on click on another area that I have not yet applied a gradient to. Hit the period key to apply a gradient to it. And then with that still selected, I'm going to go over to the Gradient panel and choose the second option here, radial. Okay, so this is where a gradient starts on the left here and makes its way out to the colors towards the right. Of course, you can have more than two. Now, essentially, everything you've seen inside of the movie around linear gradients, so basically mixing colors here, that stays true throughout for radial gradients. The big thing happens when you get to the Gradient Annotator because that changes like so. It's almost like someone shining a torch around (laughs) here, but…

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