in today's Illustrated text tutorial I have four ways you can use gradients on text
in Illustrator
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satori graphics I have an illustrator text tutorial today we're going to be looking
at four cool ways to use gradients on text as I mentioned at the start of the
week and find them myself for less time lately so I'm down to four videos per
week making today's tutorial the last one of this week's the first way we can
use gradients on tag to the most simplest method in today's tutorial I
like outline my text in Illustrator when editing in this way we then need to
add a gradient fill here if you didn't have a gradient window open you can do
so here add the colors to your gradient in the
gradient window which by default should be set to linear
to make sure the grading is fluid over the entire text or up the gradient tool
and draw a line across the text to hold it and shift you can change the
direction of the gradient in the window as well
now let's take a look at the radial gradient which we can select here
this time in the gradient tool we can drag it from the center of the text and
our words are the gradient effect
for the next effect in this illustrator text tutorial open up the appearance
window it's always best add a string to your text in this window rather than
doing in the color add a new stroke and then move the stroke layer behind the
fill layer and add a color fill
remove the issues like this here open up the stroke window and round off the
edges
with the strength layer selected other gradient filter in it can be a radial or
linear as both will work the steps effecting we're really cool we made in
Illustrator third text effect in today tutorial uses spheres to make up a
gradient to go ahead and create a sphere with the ellipse tool and add a gradient
to there we then need to use the rotate tool to drag the target icon and down to
the bottom point and click once and then hold down the alt/option key type in 90
degrees and then hit copy once you've copied it press command or control D to
repeat it two more times then place your text over the spheres and open the path
finder window
in the Pathfinder window we need to use the crop operation the last way to use
gradients on text in Illustrator is adding shadows with gradients using the
pen tool we can add a section that will represent a shadow making the text look
more 3d and I'm much more cooler
I don't gradient to the section and then make it a linear gradient on one side
make the color similar to the text a darker shade and then on the other side
lower the appears to be down to zero
for the side of the gradient that is set to zero basically you can select the
original text layer go in and copy the RGB color code
once copied go back to the shadow gradient and paste the code into the RGB
section this will make the gradient blend more along the text so did you
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really helpful have a great weekend everyone because this is the last upload
from me this week so until next time it's on your future today peace
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