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Freeform gradients

Freeform gradients - Illustrator Tutorial

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Freeform gradients

- [Instructor] I want to have a look at creating freeform gradients here in this movie. And I have a layer in the file I'm working on called Polygon, which has this heart graphic on it. And I'm going to select that. I'm just going to hold down the Command key, or Control key, on my machine and click on the heart which is there. I'm then going to open the Gradient panel because one of the ways that I can apply a gradient is by clicking any one of the gradient icons or choosing one of the gradients here. I'm going to do the first of those two things. I'm going to click on this third icon, Freeform Gradient, and these are still pretty new, just a year or so old, and very interesting. If I click like so, a gradient is applied and you might wonder where the colors are coming from. And that's a small bit of AI that's examining the document and working out what colors to place on these small nodes that you can see. Okay, so what…

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