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The Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Tool

Monday, December 31st, 2007 – running time 16:47
Bert's tutorial on Adobe Illustrator's Gradient Mesh tool.

Highlights
outer edges ( 14:08, 14:08 ) rectangle ( 9:39, 9:42, 9:39, 9:42 ) straight line ( 4:34, 4:34 ) standout ( 10:49, 10:49 ) outer edges ( 14:08, 14:08 ) rectangle ( 9:39, 9:42, 9:39, 9:42 ) straight line ( 4:34, 4:34 ) standout ( 10:49, 10:49 )

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" Pixel perfect is brought to you -- and godaddy.com. -- I again and welcome to another episode of pixel perfect reverb on the show where I show you all kinds stuff."

" Guess what you can get 96 dollars and create actress. With your domain name from godaddy.com. Each domain truths free hosting and a web site builder a free blog and complete email so much more. Says it it felt much more. And if you enter this code -- the -- and on screen pixels six. When you check out and to that and you'll save an additional 20% aren't any twelve or 24 month hosting plan. Some restrictions ya gotta theft. That's it down to -- good stuff. It was a request that came from a lot of people you all want to see. Gradient -- woman illustrator. Cool cool I can understand what you want to see it and it worked quite a few requests thank god requests from Jason and Jared and slaughter and hope and you'll -- through different Jason's. They all want to see degree matched tool -- show you that and so -- do here is I'm simply going to create a box. They little box like so. -- the box -- right now let's go with white effect it's going there but it would see blue. That's code that. Now I can set up a -- match which you'll see a few minutes or packages start creating one right in here now. Here's this tool right here -- agreed that now right click anywhere inside this box. He created to match right there they can end here another. Another. Not seeing all these different groups it's creating right there are -- going there now and select. An individual point and change the color that particular point I dissect a few points like that one and this one and maybe this one up here. And so -- get another caller. And I can manipulate things I can manipulate these panels you can twist this around like that and I -- these little guys. These little handles this to say yeah we select this guy and twisted like that -- the fact that having."

" On my little gradient right there on here and it's the blue yellow for this -- down here. And I -- because -- introduce all these colors and have a gradient going from one end of the -- to the other. That's all cool and get really creative things like that but it's. Going to -- and do something else that's just take this hold box here. And dump it and -- place. And my place command and paste is that Apple. There's an Apple and it. Now. In another layer. I'm gonna go in here and create. A tracing of this Apple first along going to select. My eye dropper to pick up this red brick and Apple just clip on you know it's a pictures sees the colors that are in there. Just -- Photoshop it picks up the color. And which -- clip. So now starting off of that red. So now -- take my pencil and in this other layer that it -- created and go here I start to create. Although outline of my Apple. -- On hand to streets the whole thing and close it off to save that and I've got this -- So now. How we're going to start to create a match inside the shape that this is not a square like it did a second ago this is -- round is to a because of the Apple. Right so I go in here with my -- to -- mouse and click -- right here you'll notice that. The great that it created his curve following the same curve of the overall and it. -- pick up here it's gonna kinda curve going that way act like in the middle who's gonna start having almost straight line. However create a couple of vertical lines as well but I want to be able to see the Apple underneath and going to build my Nash based on the Apple on the me. They had their little eyes here. And you know that you're going to preview mode you go to your view appeared in go to outline. And you see -- outlines right now I would see our Apple. We go back into artwork -- preview. And how we see it but we don't Seattle because its shape is on topic I want to go into enough -- mode just legislator. Holding down my command key and clicking on the for that later. That's the control key on the PC. You can -- that I became kind of hollow. Right seats in the hollow I have proposed -- this black this with hollow and they have seen the outline vote for this layer but seem to preview mode for the letters and me. And -- in my Apple. Now the bad thing about this mode is that with this national I can no longer click anywhere inside that's ignores them giving a little band symbol. I have to click on an actual line. In order to go in there and get myself a and -- target that there. And that going to and click and then it creates a great based on line I can't just click. In the Apple going to come to hear it won't work at the click on it an actual line in order to get in green. Target and there and there's men grin it. And going in and creating these little grids based on this. This little effect here it's gonna gonna and click on a whole bunch more lines and -- there and can make some cross section of things happening. So we're going here and that is to say we you sheep right there. And maybe one more right about here. I've got all these I think she's going on in and one more rate in here. And -- out one more there. Now I've got all these cryptic -- do things cities. Beauty of what was gonna happen now as I'm gonna go in here and start the color eyes but can't seem to colors and then preview mode so I'll do it out of print up another window. -- bring up my navigator window -- navigator window right here as you can see is going to show me. My Apple and promotes it right there there on seniors is solid color. So now I'm going here and -- and another couple who -- it's right in here. And one more right. The so. I'm ready to start color -- this. And go a hero with select certain points. Right there and with my eye dropper tool -- can click. In that -- area and you can see in my preview right here and I've now picked up the color from underneath and assigned to those particular spots I get them go here."

" Like -- long this entire -- not select all of these point on my shift key to select multiple points and is that all these points along this edge here. It down through here and all of these guys that one little -- there and -- guy. And all those guys pick want to get my eye dropper and click click on is like coming here and you'll see that we picked up this little light -- along that. Whole edge of the Apple -- there packet come down here and optical does dark tone down here by selecting these bottom. Handles them here all these little points right down there. And -- my eye dropper up pick up his dark tone and you'll see that were picking up this start from the bottom about Apple them there. And that is to say we -- of a few here that's pick up this guy right here. Shift this guy and this guy and we'll pick up a lighter version of that Apple and here to stick with my version. From India and you could see with starting to happen. Now I'm gonna go in here and does select. If at a point right here right here fiscal at a point right there would that green tone is so -- get my -- tool and at a point right there. And that point we'll pick up that green right from there -- it picked it up right on top there. So now but I got left to do is to get my pen tool and another layer is going there and."

" to create the solution it right back here practice. And new kernel. Goes down to about that. Of that off and we'll -- that was the nice brown color as the drowning deaths. And I we put all the layers and preview mode. I'm going there and date field with an of the background and we see that we had this cool little Apple to -- of the -- underneath and transfer them over. So our top up. Apple that we created. I think is one step further."

" I got this at least here. The sleepless created. In -- very simply. Right so I'm going to do here is on top of leave here. And create another layer. That's Blair I'm gonna create that's pick up the color. Pick -- the caller from right back here. Create this big rectangle. -- this. Big rectangle that's gonna covered entire fleet. Just like that and I see the veins because of things are on a separate layers you can see them they don't pop vein need and the -- registry. Right so that's called -- something we'll call this -- colors. So now that big box selected would come up here. And you can see that -- create maybe matched set up right here. Click on that brings me into -- control which does the -- for rose four columns. So when I look at this area here I can see that I have this shape the shape there's a partnership fort distinct areas in my. And I've got two -- is set up for rose. And set up. Two columns. Com. Preview that. -- and I'm getting a click OK that's what I want. There is my -- now that green kind of hard to see. So I'm gonna double click on and they and they changed that colonists use a she's black make it easier to see click OK -- can really see -- ritzy. Really makes a standout and -- linked to manipulate these handles the match the veins. Underneath there. Senator going here and I'm going to select this point right here. And kind of movement over to say that and on the top here to move it over and turn that in Europe that has followed that bring this guy over. That's here in this all the way down here to match this got -- walk this layer -- the things. -- me and target our little guy here and going here and grab this point. At this point right here. And that one point and bring it down. Matched those domains there this was just about topped the spin this one up. The need those things in out of these long handles on the shorten those handles. We long for them to -- area there this guy down here I'm gonna move over. Hold on my shift key to make him go straight over. Move it handled so that the bottom is following feel we're following the the actual shape. Of our veins. So now these guys gotta do the same gonna drag this -- way up here shift to constrain it. And it's back up shift constrain it and -- won't play with these handles to -- just matching up the existing veins in now. The bring this up. And now like that. Things got up. And down and see how -- all these things but this guy down. America handle match right there and that's when down. And then how we have these. New grid that actually follows the actual shape of the things and I'll -- Now out of we have the actual -- who can now -- the overall grid so with my we'll pull out add. A little grid to each. Our side of each line as you can see right there and kind of creating a grid on each side of our. Little. -- there there we have all the -- we need now what do going to manipulate those tests to make little tighter on the edges -- they're like that. That's being this open this one up a little bit make you -- to appear. Its openness -- up quite a bit. And here -- through space like that shortness brings out a little bit. -- and decide. That if the -- and more movement there. It's casket from way up here and opened up with underneath that. Who basically creating a hold -- good for ourselves based on the existing shapes in -- the -- this guy down. Open up right up there. And I think this guy down. And open up right here. And how we get these shapes happening. For now respect decides to call. And select all of the center lines and -- that all these central lines right in your old little points that make up the center."

" Of our veins I'm gonna affect all these guys. Down here. These guys on the edge. And the outer edges and top. Middle. Middle and these. All right so now we have all those. Lines that make up the center of our belief. Gonna go to get those different color. Go get those nice kind of more -- golden brown like that click okay here's those homes or these nice tones -- happening here. So not to -- the and another little home right in the middle. It and a little line right there. Line right here. And and blue line right in the middle here and here. I'm gonna do a delves. And honestly doles out points that we just created those guys right in there. And that one that -- And it's so that these two men in here with those points I'm not gonna add. A much different column at -- and at a really bright kind of an orange. At all those -- happening there now we have all these tons of happen. Inside of this smash that we created just like that we have all these nice little colorful shapes and things happening so now what can happen. It I'll go in here and that's a lock anybody -- and -- and put it above. The colors. It's just closes down with a leap above the college right here in this scale okay would it take these to target. Those two and say. Make those."

" It clipping masks. Now we see that the shape it is. Containing all the of colors inside the shape of my need to have all these nice little gradient and tones and things that are happening to believe. Creating these -- effects like important. Not a -- there a lot of ways of manipulating those matches you can make history mash. But the best thing about the message do you believe going to bend it twisted and control where callers are gonna -- from one color to another. Lot of control and there that's an Internet of course it's deceptive claims. That you should do sit there and play with the national iPhone would it. -- there -- something from this -- this something that -- would been struggling with we can't figure out and around. Right right -- three dot com and try to answer for you Iran Russia. See you next week."

" Pixel perfect is brought to you -- and godaddy.com. -- I again and welcome to another episode of pixel perfect reverb on the show where I show you all kinds stuff."

" Guess what you can get 96 dollars and create actress. With your domain name from godaddy.com. Each domain truths free hosting and a web site builder a free blog and complete email so much more. Says it it felt much more. And if you enter this code -- the -- and on screen pixels six. When you check out and to that and you'll save an additional 20% aren't any twelve or 24 month hosting plan. Some restrictions ya gotta theft. That's it down to -- good stuff. It was a request that came from a lot of people you all want to see. Gradient -- woman illustrator. Cool cool I can understand what you want to see it and it worked quite a few requests thank god requests from Jason and Jared and slaughter and hope and you'll -- through different Jason's. They all want to see degree matched tool -- show you that and so -- do here is I'm simply going to create a box. They little box like so. -- the box -- right now let's go with white effect it's going there but it would see blue. That's code that. Now I can set up a -- match which you'll see a few minutes or packages start creating one right in here now. Here's this tool right here -- agreed that now right click anywhere inside this box. He created to match right there they can end here another. Another. Not seeing all these different groups it's creating right there are -- going there now and select. An individual point and change the color that particular point I dissect a few points like that one and this one and maybe this one up here. And so -- get another caller. And I can manipulate things I can manipulate these panels you can twist this around like that and I -- these little guys. These little handles this to say yeah we select this guy and twisted like that -- the fact that having."

" On my little gradient right there on here and it's the blue yellow for this -- down here. And I -- because -- introduce all these colors and have a gradient going from one end of the -- to the other. That's all cool and get really creative things like that but it's. Going to -- and do something else that's just take this hold box here. And dump it and -- place. And my place command and paste is that Apple. There's an Apple and it. Now. In another layer. I'm gonna go in here and create. A tracing of this Apple first along going to select. My eye dropper to pick up this red brick and Apple just clip on you know it's a pictures sees the colors that are in there. Just -- Photoshop it picks up the color. And which -- clip. So now starting off of that red. So now -- take my pencil and in this other layer that it -- created and go here I start to create. Although outline of my Apple. -- On hand to streets the whole thing and close it off to save that and I've got this -- So now. How we're going to start to create a match inside the shape that this is not a square like it did a second ago this is -- round is to a because of the Apple. Right so I go in here with my -- to -- mouse and click -- right here you'll notice that. The great that it created his curve following the same curve of the overall and it. -- pick up here it's gonna kinda curve going that way act like in the middle who's gonna start having almost straight line. However create a couple of vertical lines as well but I want to be able to see the Apple underneath and going to build my Nash based on the Apple on the me. They had their little eyes here. And you know that you're going to preview mode you go to your view appeared in go to outline. And you see -- outlines right now I would see our Apple. We go back into artwork -- preview. And how we see it but we don't Seattle because its shape is on topic I want to go into enough -- mode just legislator. Holding down my command key and clicking on the for that later. That's the control key on the PC. You can -- that I became kind of hollow. Right seats in the hollow I have proposed -- this black this with hollow and they have seen the outline vote for this layer but seem to preview mode for the letters and me. And -- in my Apple. Now the bad thing about this mode is that with this national I can no longer click anywhere inside that's ignores them giving a little band symbol. I have to click on an actual line. In order to go in there and get myself a and -- target that there. And that going to and click and then it creates a great based on line I can't just click. In the Apple going to come to hear it won't work at the click on it an actual line in order to get in green. Target and there and there's men grin it. And going in and creating these little grids based on this. This little effect here it's gonna gonna and click on a whole bunch more lines and -- there and can make some cross section of things happening. So we're going here and that is to say we you sheep right there. And maybe one more right about here. I've got all these I think she's going on in and one more rate in here. And -- out one more there. Now I've got all these cryptic -- do things cities. Beauty of what was gonna happen now as I'm gonna go in here and start the color eyes but can't seem to colors and then preview mode so I'll do it out of print up another window. -- bring up my navigator window -- navigator window right here as you can see is going to show me. My Apple and promotes it right there there on seniors is solid color. So now I'm going here and -- and another couple who -- it's right in here. And one more right. The so. I'm ready to start color -- this. And go a hero with select certain points. Right there and with my eye dropper tool -- can click. In that -- area and you can see in my preview right here and I've now picked up the color from underneath and assigned to those particular spots I get them go here."

" Like -- long this entire -- not select all of these point on my shift key to select multiple points and is that all these points along this edge here. It down through here and all of these guys that one little -- there and -- guy. And all those guys pick want to get my eye dropper and click click on is like coming here and you'll see that we picked up this little light -- along that. Whole edge of the Apple -- there packet come down here and optical does dark tone down here by selecting these bottom. Handles them here all these little points right down there. And -- my eye dropper up pick up his dark tone and you'll see that were picking up this start from the bottom about Apple them there. And that is to say we -- of a few here that's pick up this guy right here. Shift this guy and this guy and we'll pick up a lighter version of that Apple and here to stick with my version. From India and you could see with starting to happen. Now I'm gonna go in here and does select. If at a point right here right here fiscal at a point right there would that green tone is so -- get my -- tool and at a point right there. And that point we'll pick up that green right from there -- it picked it up right on top there. So now but I got left to do is to get my pen tool and another layer is going there and."

" to create the solution it right back here practice. And new kernel. Goes down to about that. Of that off and we'll -- that was the nice brown color as the drowning deaths. And I we put all the layers and preview mode. I'm going there and date field with an of the background and we see that we had this cool little Apple to -- of the -- underneath and transfer them over. So our top up. Apple that we created. I think is one step further."

" I got this at least here. The sleepless created. In -- very simply. Right so I'm going to do here is on top of leave here. And create another layer. That's Blair I'm gonna create that's pick up the color. Pick -- the caller from right back here. Create this big rectangle. -- this. Big rectangle that's gonna covered entire fleet. Just like that and I see the veins because of things are on a separate layers you can see them they don't pop vein need and the -- registry. Right so that's called -- something we'll call this -- colors. So now that big box selected would come up here. And you can see that -- create maybe matched set up right here. Click on that brings me into -- control which does the -- for rose four columns. So when I look at this area here I can see that I have this shape the shape there's a partnership fort distinct areas in my. And I've got two -- is set up for rose. And set up. Two columns. Com. Preview that. -- and I'm getting a click OK that's what I want. There is my -- now that green kind of hard to see. So I'm gonna double click on and they and they changed that colonists use a she's black make it easier to see click OK -- can really see -- ritzy. Really makes a standout and -- linked to manipulate these handles the match the veins. Underneath there. Senator going here and I'm going to select this point right here. And kind of movement over to say that and on the top here to move it over and turn that in Europe that has followed that bring this guy over. That's here in this all the way down here to match this got -- walk this layer -- the things. -- me and target our little guy here and going here and grab this point. At this point right here. And that one point and bring it down. Matched those domains there this was just about topped the spin this one up. The need those things in out of these long handles on the shorten those handles. We long for them to -- area there this guy down here I'm gonna move over. Hold on my shift key to make him go straight over. Move it handled so that the bottom is following feel we're following the the actual shape. Of our veins. So now these guys gotta do the same gonna drag this -- way up here shift to constrain it. And it's back up shift constrain it and -- won't play with these handles to -- just matching up the existing veins in now. The bring this up. And now like that. Things got up. And down and see how -- all these things but this guy down. America handle match right there and that's when down. And then how we have these. New grid that actually follows the actual shape of the things and I'll -- Now out of we have the actual -- who can now -- the overall grid so with my we'll pull out add. A little grid to each. Our side of each line as you can see right there and kind of creating a grid on each side of our. Little. -- there there we have all the -- we need now what do going to manipulate those tests to make little tighter on the edges -- they're like that. That's being this open this one up a little bit make you -- to appear. Its openness -- up quite a bit. And here -- through space like that shortness brings out a little bit. -- and decide. That if the -- and more movement there. It's casket from way up here and opened up with underneath that. Who basically creating a hold -- good for ourselves based on the existing shapes in -- the -- this guy down. Open up right up there. And I think this guy down. And open up right here. And how we get these shapes happening. For now respect decides to call. And select all of the center lines and -- that all these central lines right in your old little points that make up the center."

" Of our veins I'm gonna affect all these guys. Down here. These guys on the edge. And the outer edges and top. Middle. Middle and these. All right so now we have all those. Lines that make up the center of our belief. Gonna go to get those different color. Go get those nice kind of more -- golden brown like that click okay here's those homes or these nice tones -- happening here. So not to -- the and another little home right in the middle. It and a little line right there. Line right here. And and blue line right in the middle here and here. I'm gonna do a delves. And honestly doles out points that we just created those guys right in there. And that one that -- And it's so that these two men in here with those points I'm not gonna add. A much different column at -- and at a really bright kind of an orange. At all those -- happening there now we have all these tons of happen. Inside of this smash that we created just like that we have all these nice little colorful shapes and things happening so now what can happen. It I'll go in here and that's a lock anybody -- and -- and put it above. The colors. It's just closes down with a leap above the college right here in this scale okay would it take these to target. Those two and say. Make those."

" It clipping masks. Now we see that the shape it is. Containing all the of colors inside the shape of my need to have all these nice little gradient and tones and things that are happening to believe. Creating these -- effects like important. Not a -- there a lot of ways of manipulating those matches you can make history mash. But the best thing about the message do you believe going to bend it twisted and control where callers are gonna -- from one color to another. Lot of control and there that's an Internet of course it's deceptive claims. That you should do sit there and play with the national iPhone would it. -- there -- something from this -- this something that -- would been struggling with we can't figure out and around. Right right -- three dot com and try to answer for you Iran Russia. See you next week."

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Started discussion: December 31, 2007 @ 1:03pm GMT

Episode 63: The Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Tool [Discussion]

Bert's tutorial on Adobe Illustrator's Gradient Mesh tool.

Piojita
about 1 year ago
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