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021 Creating Metallic Chrome Effects

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021 Creating Metallic Chrome Effects

A highly reflective chrome effect may look like it was tricky to create, but in reality, all you need is a simple gradient fill using as few as three color stops to create a convincing chrome look. The key is to create a point somewhere in the gradient where the colors abruptly shift. When you have contrast, you have chrome. So here in this document, I have five separate objects filled with gradients that look like chrome. Let's take a look at them. In my Swatches panel, select the first one, and this is filled with a gradient called Basic Chrome. I will double-click to see what Basic Chrome is made of. It's a very simple gradient ramp. Most of it is filled with just Paper, and then right here in the middle there's this abrupt shift between Paper to a dark blue color, and that's what creates the contrast and the feeling of chrome. Then I transition more gradually back again to Paper. So just three stops, but this abrupt contrast makes it feel like a shiny metallic material. Let's look…

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