hey what's going on youtube in today's video i'm going to show you how you can combine
multiple gradients in a single object so a few months ago i made a different video on the same
subject and i showed you how you can do this with using masks and a few other techniques so
if you want to go back and check that one out first feel free however i've recently come up
with a much quicker way and easier way of doing this so i thought i'd share that with you today
so to get started we're going to come over here to the left hand side toolbar menu and select one of
the shape tools here for this tutorial i'm going to go with an ellipse but you can choose any shape
you like it will work with any of those so once you've selected your shape just simply drag it
out on your canvas if you hold down the shift key that will hold your constraints and proportions
perfectly and once you're happy with that we can continue with adding our first gradient and to do
that we're going to go back over to the left hand side toolbar and select that fill tool right there
so once we've selected our fill tool we just got to decide which direction we want our gradient
to go just by simply placing your mouse cursor anywhere and dragging down if for any reason
you're not happy with how you place that you can simply rotate it just by dragging any of these
handles on the end just into a different direction so you can see we've got this gray one down here
this white one up here we can simply change the colors of these over here in the color wheel
to anything you prefer or alternatively we can come up to the top bar menu up here
and we can do it in here also the benefits to doing it over here is we can add additional
colors in there if we want by tapping anywhere on this line right there and you can put in as
many of these as you like just simply by double tapping and then we can just come in and change
the color of this maybe make that a bit lighter and this one here will give a different color
and just change all these to something you're more happy with
just like that so this doesn't look great at all it's just going to be a quick example i
hope you choose better colors than i have but also in here we have this option here where
we can change the type of gradient that we've got here just by going through these settings
or you can keep that as it was on linear and we can also change the opacity on any of these points
by selecting them and you can just drag that opacity down so you could have that fade into a
zero opacity so you can see for it if you wanted to but i'll leave it as it was and we can also
reverse the gradient right there so it'll select the colors on that side and bring it over here
so once you're happy with your color choice which i'm not really but it will do just to quickly
demonstrate we can move on so we're going to come off this shape here just for a moment and what
we need to do next is we're gonna make a copy of this circle or any shape that you guys are using
so to do that we're just gonna select it we'll hit that command c and the command of v on the
mac and i think that's control c and control v on a windows computer and you can see we've
got the copy over here now so i'm just going to resize that holding down that shift key to keep
it perfectly round like we did before and what i'm going to do now is i want to drag this one inside
of the one underneath so we use this one here as a mask and what that will allow us to do is keep
this circle inside of this one so i'll quickly demonstrate that just by dragging this down
we've got this big blue bar there and we want to shrink that over to the right a
little bit so if we drag it over you'll see that eventually it will get a bit smaller
just like that and when it gets to that point you just let go and now it is inside of this circle
here so no matter where we move this around it's masked inside of the circle on top of it
so now we've done that we can simply change the colors on this gradient by coming back
over to the fill tool and we can come in and edit this so we'll come back up here
and if you've got too many colors in here you can select it and you
can just delete some of these colors so i'm going to leave maybe maybe just two
in this one and then we'll do another one in a minute so let's change the colors on
here maybe that there
and the yellow down there perhaps
and like i said before we can move this around if you want to to any direction
if you want to add more colors you can also do that here by double tapping anywhere on this line
if you want to delete them just select it and delete it so next we are going to do the exact
same thing that we just did we're going to now make a copy of this circle so command or control
c again and command and control v again windows on mac and we're just going to now move this into
place to wherever you want you can obviously make this a lot bigger or smaller you can do
anything you like with that you can add as many of these in here as you like just to make a better
effect and change all the colors so once again we're going to change the fill colors on here
for the gradient to something a bit different to what we've already got
maybe that blue a bit darker
and we'll go for maybe a bit of green down this end so as stated before we can just move these
around if you want to it's entirely up to you what you want to do with your colors and which
direction you want it to go so if i grab that move tool i can just move this around freely inside
and make it bigger or smaller i think i'll make that a little bit bigger and this now is where
we are going to combine all this together into one gradient and to do that we're just going to simply
come on to one of these circles we'll start off with this big green one and we're going to come
down to the effects which is right down there at the bottom the layer effects and tap on that
and we're going to select this gaussian blur or gaussian blur however you like to pronounce that
so once we tick that we've got this radius bar right there and by default this will only go up
to a hundred as you can see but we can change that manually just by double tapping and putting in our
own number so if we bring this up to a hundred you can see what's going on here it starts to
soften on the edges making it easier to blend into what is behind it i don't really think 100
is enough on this so maybe we could double up on that and put 200 or any number that you want to
do it's trial and error just see what you can get out of this and to me that looks better already
so i'm going to come off that one and we're going to do the exact same thing on the circle
underneath back to the effects gaussian or gaussian blur stick 200 on that one as well
and it's kind of doing the same thing that we've already done so as we have a little
look at it now you can see they've all kind of blended in but the color choice isn't amazing
so this is non-destructive we can always come back in here and change everything we can always move
things around to wherever you want them so we can still come and change the colors again by
grabbing that fill tool and deciding to go with something that may look better with those colors
so in case of having a little play around and see what you can find here to blend these
nicer that looks better already and then we could possibly change this one in the background as well
and don't forget that we can always change the direction of the fill also or the gradient
and i think we change that color there
and it's just a case of you guys playing around with this and seeing what it is that you can
achieve and the kind of look that you are going for so i'm going to leave that like that and back
down here and then we can obviously move this around again like i stated so you see we've got
all these different colors all combined now and i'm going to change that one as well just to give
that a little bit more maybe darker than we had just so you can see there is more color in here
and perhaps just leave that somewhere like that i'm not a fan of this color down there but this
is just a quick demonstration you can obviously come in and change this if you want to
and we can just drag it out so it fades a little bit better if you like so i'm just going to leave
it like that just for the moment but what i want to quickly demonstrate is that this
obviously is not your final design we can edit this as much as you like we can even delete them
if you're not happy with it turn it on and off add as many of these as you want all different
shapes whatever you want to do and we can always come back and if you think that is too soft we can
change these numbers here so we can make it harder let's go back to 100 or we can just go for 150
and just play around with the settings and see what it is that you like to do
and what works for you and as you can see once we close it we've got this one single
object and we can just resize that and move that around as you like you can go straight in and put
your effects on as you usually would so if we're putting out a shadow one here to put 15 by 15.
and everything will work as it would as though you was working on a single object
so i hope you like this video and you guys chose some better colors than me because this
really does not look good but like i said we can always go back at any point and we can change all
the perimeters all the colors and just move things around just to make them look a little bit better
so simply just by moving things slightly they could already look better anyway
without changing any colors it's all down to what you can do as an artist please hit that
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