Hey, guys, it's Martin from Yes I'm a designer, let me show you a new feature
in Adobe Illustrator CC 2019.
So this has to be my favorite new feature in this version
the gradients in the previous versions were already working really well
and we obviously have the gradient mesh option which I have in this case as well
you can see all of these shapes have gradient meshes on them
which means that if I use the direct selection tool I can move these nodes around
and you can see how the colors are starting to mix differently.
Now this is an amazing feature
and I know that a lot of professional illustrators would use it all the time
I do as well
but finally now we have a new option
which is a new take on creating this type of illustrations.
So let me show you this I'm just going to turn on this other shape that I prepared,
which is not a gradient mesh.
So this is just a simple shape at this moment
but what we will be doing here is to add a gradient on it
and the way I'm going to do it is by
going through the Window Menu select Gradient that brings us to the Gradient Panel
and notice that we have the new option here next to the original Linear
and Radial gradient now we have also this third category called
Freeform gradient and that's the new feature. So let me click on that
and as soon as I click on it is going to automatically assign a few pinpoints
on the gradient.
So you can think of these as control points.
These control points can be moved around freely and easily
and you can see a live update of how
your new gradient is going to look like I just love this feature it's
more similar to the Puppet Warp that was introduced in the previous version
but now that we can use these pins also for gradients it's just amazing
and of course you can add new points as well as easily as that and you can move them
freely around and you can see how cool effects you can get very quickly
but of course there's more.
So if you want you can also double click on any of
these and switch to a different color so I can take something completely different
and then we can also increase the area that it covers
it's called spread
which you can access again by click and dragging this little black point
and then now we can see it has a reach that is less smoothing transition
but it covers a bigger area with that selected color.
Another really cool feature is that while you are selecting colours
for your gradients and this actually applies to all types of gradients,
finally, now we have
the Eyedropper tool as well available so I can pick a colour from another design.
So I can check very quickly which color would suit best this part of my gradient
and then I can just leave it at that, so having the feature might seem like a
small thing but again it's just so much more convenient to work with gradients
in general just by having that option there.
Now if you don't see the nodes
or control points on your Gradient or Freeform gradient make sure you press G
to get back to your Gradient tool and that way you should be able to see them again,
but they're still not all there's more you can even add control lines
instead of points.
So just select lines here on the top or from the Gradient panel
and all you have to do is to start drawing.
So let me just put my first point down
but before I go any further I'm going to change the color of this
to something like that
and then notice that I will see a rubber band showing
the line that is going to be created,
so if I click again there's my new point
using again the previous color which is very smart
but here comes the coolest thing
if I keep drawing with this it's going to automatically curve this path
and each of these color stops will be using my most recent color.
So because I created this is a line that means that the gradient is running along the edge
of the shape now
so this is a brilliant feature for shading shapes
and in a much more intuitive way than it used to be with the gradient mesh.
So you can see I can select
each of these points still and double click on
them to change the color I can of course use color swatches or the eyedropper
and I can very quickly assign different shading on them like this one as well
I can make a bit darker
and immediately it starts to feel that this shape
has a bit more depth because this bottom area is darker than the top
but of course you can still move these points around
and notice how nicely all the other parts of
the curve update.
So if I move this point around you can see both neighboring
details updating.
Again this behavior on the path actually comes from the
curvature tool.
So think of this as the curvature tool use within a gradient
to define your color stops and the transitions between them
once again the freeform gradient is an amazing feature make sure you test it out
because it's much more intuitive than the gradient mesh
and it is
just pure fun to work with,
and thanks a lot for watching I hope this was useful
and if you want to find out more about all the new features released
in this version for Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign make sure you check back on our channel.
See you guys in the next one