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Gradients on strokes

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Gradients on strokes

- [Instructor] Gradients can also be applied to strokes, and that gives you quite a lot of creative possibilities if you think about all the different things you can do with strokes. So in the file that I'm working on here, I've got a layer called Laser, and on that there are two strokes, both dotted strokes. Big dots, given, but they are both dotted strokes nonetheless. And what I want to do is apply a gradient to the stroke. And to do that, what I need to do first off is I need to bring the stroke to the front if I want to choose it from the swatches panel, or of course, otherwise I could just simply choose it from something that targets the stroke specifically. But I'll tap X, which brings the stroke to the front, and then I can go ahead and click in my swatches here to choose a gradient. And I'm going to go with this green to light green gradient here. Then I'll open the gradient panel, and you'll see that I've…

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