From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
778 Freeform gradient limitations
From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
778 Freeform gradient limitations
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll talk about a couple of Freeform gradient gotchas. Including the fact that you can't drag a point outside of a path outline, and you can't cross lines. And along the way, we'll go ahead and shade the stem of this left hand pepper. Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch over to our document so far and I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on the stem like so, so that we can see it up close and personal. And then I'll click on it with the black arrow tool in order to select it. The shape currently has a solid fill, and so we're not seeing any of our gradient controls up here in the control bar. So I'll go ahead and switch to my gradient tool, which I can get by pressing the G key, at which point all of my gradient controls appear. Now, assuming that your fill is selected, that's very important, you can not apply Freeform gradients to strokes. Then you will see the Freeform gradient icon. At which point, all you have to do is click on it, in order to automatically add a few points. And in my case, I ended up with a total of four color points as we're seeing here. None of them are really what I'm looking for, but I'm just going to go ahead and select this middle guy and press the backspace key, or the delete key on a Mac to get rid of it. And then I'll select this point in the bottom left corner and I'll double click on it to bring up the swatches panel, notice that I've created a couple of custom green swatches in advance including this guy, stem low. So I'll go ahead and select it in order to start things off. And then up here in the control panel, I'll make sure that lines is active. Although I should say that you can combine lines with independent points, inside of a single path outline. Alright, now I'll click to create a sequence of points like so, ending right about there. Alright, now I want to start a new line, but as you can see I'm still working on the old one. As indicated by that segment preview, as well as that little circle cursor with the wavy line, and so if I want to start something new all I need to do is press the escape key and not only does that segment preview go away, but where the cursor is concerned, the wavy line gets replaced by a little plus sign. Now, I'll go ahead and select this guy let's say, and I'll move it up a little, and then I'll double click on it and change it to this color swatch, stem high. And now I'll press the enter key, or the return key on a Mac to dismiss the panel. I'll create a point high up like so, and then I'll move my cursor down, and then once again notice as I move the cursor, I'm introducing curvature to that previous segment, as well as the new one. And now I'll create a point right about there let's say, and another one down at the bottom. Alright, now I'm going to create a third line, so I'll go ahead and press the escape key. In order to dismiss that segment preview, and to change my cursor back to a plus sign, I'll go ahead and double click on this point, and it'll change it to stem low right there, and then I'll click to set a point here, and one up here, let's say, another at this location and then I'm going to kind of move around this edge. And notice I can not create a point outside of the path outline, so I have to keep my cursor inside the path. And that's looking pretty good. So once again, I'll just press the escape key. Alright, now I want to preview how things are looking, and so I'll press and hold the control key, or the command key on a Mac, in order to temporarily access my black arrow tool, and hide all of the points, and it's seeming to me, that this edge isn't quite dark enough down here, and this one is too dark. And so, what I'd like to do is move this point right here, and I'd like to be able to move it outside of the stem, so I'm still effecting the path outline, but I'm just brightening it up a little bit, but if I do that, notice that the point just disappears. Now, ironically, if I get my cursor in the proper location here I can click in order to set a point outside the path outline but I can't move it to a location outside the path, or Illustrator automatically deletes it. So what I need to do is create the point, way out there, and then just drag it in, and perhaps down a little bit as well, and I'll click to add another point right there, and I will move it up as far as I can, and then I'll click down here to set a point, and move it down and inward. Alright, so that's one thing to keep an eye out for, here's another. Imagine I select this color point right there, and I press the backspace key, or the delete key on the Mac. Illustrator's going to gripe at me, and it's going to tell me that you can't create, move, or delete a color stop that causes one or more paths to intersect. And so at this point that's just not allowed. And so I'll just go ahead and click okay, to dismiss that message and so instead, I'll just go ahead and drag this guy down a little bit. And now to once again preview the effect, I'll press and hold the control key, or the command key on the Mac, to temporarily access my black arrow tool. And, if you're happy with what you see, then you can just go ahead and release control or command and go up to the select menu, and choose the deselect command, or you can press control shift A, or command shift A on the Mac. Alright, I'll go ahead and press control zero, or command zero on the Mac to zoom out, and I just want to show you once again, that this is a bonafide fill that you can transfer to a different object, which is something you can not do with gradient mesh, by the way. And so for example, I could go ahead and grab my black arrow tool, the one that Illustrator calls a selection tool, I could click in that big rectangle to select it, I could switch to the eyedropper tool. Which you can get by pressing the I key, and then I could click inside that stem, in order to transfer that custom Freeform gradient, to that larger shape. And if I'm just crazy, I could control or command click on a pepper shape right there, in order to select it and then click on the stem once again, to make it this eerie sort of x-ray green. Alright, I don't want to do any of those things, so I'll press control Z or command Z on the Mac, a couple of times in order to restore my previous Freeform gradients I'll press control shift A, or command shift A on the Mac, to deselect the artwork, and I'll go ahead and turn on the text layer. And finally, just so we can fill the screen with the artwork, I'll go up to the view menu, and choose presentation mode. So just remember, when you're creating Freeform gradients, that the color stops have to remain inside the path outline, and the lines cannot cross. Here inside Illustrator CC 2019, and I imagine, going forward.
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Contents
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767 Mandala patterns in Photoshop CC 20191m
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768 Painting a free-form mandala pattern9m 5s
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769 Painting mandala-style dot patterns6m 56s
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770 Coloring your mandala pattern7m 48s
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771 The final full-color mandala6m 27s
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772 Illustrator CC 2019 new preview mode1m 1s
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773 Illustrator CC 2019 presentation mode3m 21s
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774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 20196m 30s
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775 Applying a global edit from the control panel4m 8s
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776 Freeform gradients in Illustrator CC 20198m 29s
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777 Freeform gradients: Points versus lines8m 10s
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778 Freeform gradient limitations6m 29s
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779 Crop and develop a great white shark8m 54s
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780 Sharpening your great white shark6m 11s
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781 Low vibrance and high saturation9m 3s
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782 Vibrance, saturation, and sharpness9m 11s
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783 Actioning a full-color hedcut in Photoshop1m
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784 Recording an action to play all actions9m 37s
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785 Draw something, color the outlines8m 46s
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786 Combining multiple works of line art7m 3s
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787 Group your line art, clip to the group4m 9s
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788 Coloring outside your line art in Photoshop6m 32s
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789 Flip horizontal view in Photoshop CC 20191m
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790 Creating a White Walker in Photoshop1m 59s
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791 The White Walker begins9m 25s
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792 Giving a guy a digital shave in Photoshop3m 58s
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793 Carving deep wrinkles or scars into skin8m 37s
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794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows6m 21s
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795 Creating pale, lifeless lips in Photoshop5m 57s
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796 Giving your White Walker glowing blue eyes10m 46s
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797 Adding some creepy lifeless pupils6m 40s
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798 Adding a cold and gloomy background12m 18s
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799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes6m 25s
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800 Using the Transparency Shapes Layer option5m 29s
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801 Combining a radial filter with a range mask8m 35s
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802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw6m 20s
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803 An actual dream effect, in Photoshop14m 37s
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804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream8m 45s
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805 Applying distortions as Smart Filters6m 37s
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806 Combining distortions with blend modes10m 5s
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807 Drawing a 24-sided star in negative space12m 48s
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808 Making your star a repeating hex pattern8m 27s
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809 Shading your star pattern in Illustrator6m 57s
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810 Creating a gradient pattern in Illustrator4m 31s
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811 Making one pattern fade into another6m 23s
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812 Welcome to my seamlessly repeating summer1m 35s
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813 Drawing a cubical gobstopper in Illustrator14m 55s
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814 Creating a pattern of gobstoppers7m 23s
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815 Aligning your many gobstoppers5m 54s
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816 Blending line textures in Illustrator12m 58s
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817 Combining object blends with a pattern8m 40s
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818 Carving cubical holes into cubical objects9m 52s
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819 Nesting gradients inside a pattern5m 36s
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820 Drawing 3D isometric arrows in Illustrator7m 33s
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821 Positioning the tips of your arrows7m 17s
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822 Filling in the gaps in a repeating pattern8m 50s
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823 Drawing cartoon teeth aligned to the hair5m 50s
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824 Drawing a triangular cartoon eye8m 6s
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825 Adding windows to the houses pattern10m 46s
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826 Creating a perfectly tessellating pattern4m 32s
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827 Op art experiment 4: Triangle tunnels6m 58s
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828 Expressing your triangles as a hex pattern7m 18s
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829 Adding color to your triangle tunnels7m 55s
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830 Recoloring your triangle tunnels3m 20s
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831 Creating rainbow gradients with blends6m 18s
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832 The downside of using blends in patterns3m 35s
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833 Drawing an impossible trident in Illustrator9m 49s
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834 Shading an impossible trident with gradients4m 3s
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835 Painting paths with opposing gradients13m 51s
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836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator6m 42s
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837 Drawing an impossible hex object14m 8s
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838 Creating impossible latticework5m 46s
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839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch9m 46s
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840 Painting a watercolor wash background8m 23s
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841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró4m 17s
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842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop9m 1s
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843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size11m 5s
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844 What if Joan Miró had met Jordan Peele?14m 10s
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845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene11m 47s
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846 Painting a Rorschach background9m 22s
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848 What to do when Content-Aware Fill fails?10m 4s
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847 Finishing your “Us” artwork in Photoshop10m 35s
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849 Hand turkey 20191m 56s
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850 Tracing your actual hand on an iPad10m 6s
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851 Drawing a highly articulated hand9m 50s
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852 Adding color to your hand-drawn hand12m 33s
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853 Painting your hand-drawn fingernails9m 3s
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854 A hand becomes a Thanksgiving hand turkey9m 6s
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855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers13m 30s
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856 What’s wrong with this drop shadow?11m 14s
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857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad13m 6s
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858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 29m 13s
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859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 310m 17s
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