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Hey there, in this tutorial,
together, we're going to make Gradients.
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Gradients are awesome.
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Let's go do it now in Illustrator.
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Working with Gradients,
we're going to open up 'Postcard.ai' file.
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It's in our 'Exercise Files'.
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You don't have to, obviously we can
work with any shape.
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In this document we're going to work
with this background here.
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In our Layers panel
we locked that Layer.
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So I'm going to go to 'Layers',
I'm going to 'unlock' it...
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so that I can click on this
object in the background here.
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To add a Gradient, go to 'Properties',
and where it says 'Fill', click on that.
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And best, just get started
with one of these.
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There's ugly white and black...
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then there's ugly orange,
and weird other orange.
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Then there's a sky blue, to white.
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We can start with one of these,
just to start with the black versus white.
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To change the colors,
the easiest way is probably...
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just with the 'Window', 'Gradient' panel.
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Where are you, Gradient?
There you are.
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This panel up here, if I move it up...
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we can just double click these 'houses'.
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So double click the 'white house'...
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and you can pick a new color
from down here.
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Double click the 'black house'.
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You can see what I did there,
I double clicked not quite on the house...
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so it generated a new Swatch for me.
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If it does do that--
now I've got three Swatches.
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Which is kind of cool,
means that I could pick another color...
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and have kind of a
third transitional color.
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It's going to be bad.
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Actually not that bad, I like it.
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Anyway, if you do want to get rid of
one of these, you just click on it...
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and click the trash can,
and that will get rid of it.
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To add it, just click back
on the line underneath.
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So we've got our Gradients...
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now we want to adjust the kind of,
maybe direction.
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We'll use this tool over here.
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Go to 'Gradient tool', give it a click.
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You can see, there's my Gradient
running right through the middle.
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What I can do is just click, hold,
and drag anywhere on this rectangle...
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and change how I've got it.
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So I'm using a Linear Gradient.
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We can go up to 'Linear',
change it to 'Radial'.
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Kind of works differently, right?
We're kind of drawing from the center out.
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It's up to you how you want to do it.
We can go way past where we need to be.
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We're going to go back to 'Linear'.
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A couple of things you can do,
watch this.
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If I hover above this line,
I can actually use these houses.
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I can double click them here.
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It's just an alternative
for clicking them up here.
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Doesn't work on all compound shapes,
and lots of other things.
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So I find, just using the Gradient Tool
is better when you're new.
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Yes, we've got our Gradients.
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Now, let's say I...
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I did this course-- I've been teaching
Illustrator for a long time.
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Gradients was something like--
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For the last 10 years we've been
laughing at Gradients.
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Gradients are so back.
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A cool little site that I found
the other day is this one here.
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It's called Grabient.
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All it is, is just nice Gradients.
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Having a look through,
there's a few different options.
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What's really nice about it is,
say that you like one of these...
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you just click on the start color...
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copy this number here,
it's called the Hexadecimal number.
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I'm going to click 'Copy'.
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Jump into Illustrator, and what I can do,
is I can click on this house...
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and down here I can replace it there.
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Hit 'return', jump back in,
grab this one.
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Grab it properly, copy and paste it,
grab you.
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Paste it down here.
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You can kind of just
borrow Gradients from people.
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Now I'm going to drag it.
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You can see, my-- the reason with
what's happening with this box here -
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I'm going to close this down.
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- is that I've got mine underneath.
You might not like that.
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Let's say I want to start my Gradient
from about here onwards.
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Look at that. Love it.
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Let's look at a couple of other things
that you might run into trouble with.
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Rectangle's pretty easy,
let's look at something like this.
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This here is an outline bit of text.
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It's not editable text, we've outlined it,
so it's just kind of shapes.
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Problem with it is that when I add it,
and I go to here...
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you'll notice, it kind of
does it individually.
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What I want is a Gradient
that goes across all of them.
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The way to get around that is...
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you grab your 'Gradient Tool',
just drag across them all.
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You got to actually grab
the Gradient Tool...
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and drag across them all.
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That will kind of join them all up.
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Now we need to open up
the Gradient Panel again...
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because remember, that line that appeared
that we can work on the graphic down here.
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Just doesn't work with compound shapes.
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So we're going to go here,
and go to 'Gradient'.
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If you're not sure what
a compound shape is...
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don't worry, we're going to cover
that later on in the course as well.
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I want 'Radial'.
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It's pretty cool.
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I'm going to drag across them all,
and we get this kind of...
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like, consistent across all three of them.
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I'm going to pick a color.
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You can move on now, I'm totally
just going to go off and find a cool color.
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Yes, add it to it.
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You can skip on to the next video.
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Ah, I love this. Look at this.
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Who would have thought I'd love this.
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If you were to ask me
a couple of years ago...
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"Dan, you're going to be into Gradients?"
and I'm going to be like...
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"No."
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80's retro pastels.
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I'd be like, "No way."
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This one's got three colors in it.
I'm going to grab--
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I'm going to click on the line there.
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Double click.
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And the last one is this green.
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If you're finding your colors
aren't matching the same as mine...
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I take it back.
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I'm not sure I'm into this color
as much as I thought I was.
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But let's say that you don't--
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the colors just aren't coming out rich.
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They're looking really nice in here...
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but they're washed out
in your Illustrator file.
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It's because you're probably
working in CMYK.
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We covered this a little earlier.
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What you might want to do is,
before you can change the colors...
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you might go to 'File'...
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pick your colors, go to 'File',
'Document Color Setup'...
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and make sure you're in 'RGB'.
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Change your RGB, then go add your colors.
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It's kind of like a one way street.
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You can't just flick it over to RGB,
and hope they come back to life.
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You need to put them back in now.
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All right, that is Gradients
in Illustrator, which I now love...
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which probably in a year or two,
nobody will love again.
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Gradients, so in fashion,
and then out of fashion.
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All right, let's get into the next video.
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