gradients are essential and a useful tool for graphic designers so today
learn about five more advanced tips regarding the use of gradients within
Adobe Illustrator welcome back to Satori graphics everybody so follow along and
see how many of these more advanced tips you didn't know before and also boost
your skills when using gradients in Illustrator
the first tip today the neat liver-function adobe illustrator that
gives you more room for editing your designs when using gradients you can
select multiple objects within one design and then make a compound shape
like so you can also press command or control 8 on your keyboard which is the
keyboard shortcut this is going to allow you to apply a gradient across the
entire selection however you can also press a for direct selection tool and
click and move the shape around independently of everything else
now this is very cool because the shapes orientation can be changed and the
gradient will also change relative to the design orientation finally we can
double-click the design element and then resize and move it around also
double-clicking an object within a compound shape brings you into isolation
mode so you can edit the shape independently of everything else the
second tip today is one that you probably won't find anywhere else on
YouTube but it is very important for use in gradients in Illustrator especially
for print projects so here on screen right now I have a gradient and in the
gradient window you can see there are two swatches that make up the gradient
we can click the slider to add more swatches but for this example today I'm
just gonna leave it with two if we take a look at the gradient closely you will
see stripes running down it which is known as banding this one more than
likely look even worse once it's printed so this is obviously not ideal and want
me to combat this is to decrease the distance between each swatch in the
gradient window so we can actually go ahead and add more swatches in the
window to try rectify this problem he was a new gradient below of a similar
color overall and you can see that I have 10 swatches on it you can actually
change the swatches position with complete accuracy by typing in some
values here now the banding is less obvious and less of a problem however
listed a small issue on some areas and I would probably spend more time fixing
this if I was working on actual project so the tip here today is to experiment
and take time to decrease a distance between each swatch thus limiting the
banding problem when it rears its ugly head the third tip is a good reminder on
how you can save a gradient to use again later on your graphic design workflow
with the gradient selected go ahead and open the swatches window in the top drop
down menu making sure that you do have the gradient highlighted in the color
palettes you then simply locate add a new swatch option give it a relevant
name so that you can remember it later again and then click OK
now the gradient is saved in your swatches library the fifth tip today is
actually a quick but a very cool technique on how to fill a shape for the
gradient that travels around the shape normally we can add one that is linear
across the shape or even radial but it's never actually around the shape
itself
the gradient at the moment is linear and across it by defaults but if you click
this setting here in the gradient window the greeting is going to travel around
the shapes edge now what you need to do is to increase the stroke wait until the
hole in the middle disappears
finally today at Tiffany's less advanced than others but I have to add it into a
gradient tutorial when we select various different design
elements in Illustrator we can add a gradient but it wouldn't spread across
every sync component of that design we just need to press G for the gradient
tool where you can access in the toolbar and draw a line to stretch the gradient
in any which way we desire if you want to learn more about illustrator and
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