From the course: Introducing Illustrator
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Live Paint and gradients - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Illustrator
Live Paint and gradients
- [Instructor] Now I'll show you how to combine Live Paint with gradients. And so I'll go ahead and click on that Live Paint object with the black arrow tool in order to select it. And then I'll switch to the Live Paint Bucket. Now you want to go over to the Properties panel, click on the Fill swatch, and change it to this predefined gradient called white black. And then we'll press the enter key or the return key on the Mac to dismiss that panel. And now let's say I want to fill this entire region with one continuous gradient. Well, I can drag over those areas, but each one is going to be assigned its own gradient like so. Alright, I'll drag across these two green regions as well. And then I'll switch to the gradient tool. Now notice I'm not seeing my gradient annotator, things do work however, if you just go ahead and drag across this gradient like so then you'll get one continuous fill. The problem is that your stroke…
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