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Illustrator effects

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- [Tony] Okay, so what we're going to do now, is just collapse if it's expanded, this Stroke drop-down here. So you see the disclosure triangle allows us access to any effects and other things that are applied to that. And we're going to go the Fill above that. Now I'm going to add a second fill. Now there is a button for that down at the bottom of the panel just here, but I'm going to teach you a secret undocumented shortcut. If you hold down the Command key or Control on Windows and tap Slash, it will create you a new fill. If you want to add more strokes just add the Alt or Option key into that mix. So what I'm going to do here is go to the swatches and I'm going to use one of these gradients, Blue Sky. Now I'm not too worried about how that's going to look on the color underneath at the moment, but that's what I'm going to choose, and I'm choosing it because it has transparency in the gradient. So already we've got a…

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