Create Gradient in Adobe Illustrator CS6
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You're watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to create a "Gradient" effect in Adobe Illustrator CS6 in Windows 7.
Steps
- 1This will reveal a list of your recently used programs, where you may find Illustrator. It has a brown-and-orange icon with the letters "Ai".To begin, you should open Illustrator either from your desktop or by coming down to the bottom-left corner and clicking once on the Windows icon.
- 2If you still can't see Illustrator, use your search bar along the bottom and start typing "Adobe Illustrator".
- 3It will immediately start loading and will take us directly to our workspace.Click "Adobe Illustrator CS6".
- 4Click "File" in the top left-hand corner.
- 5Alternatively, press "Ctrl" + "N" on the keyboard. You can also open an existing document from here. There are other VisiHow tutorials on how to do those.Click "New...".
- 6Now, you have your document. You need an object too.Click "OK".
- 7First, we need to click the fill color box.
- 8Click a color.
- 9Click "OK".
- 10There are other VisiHow tutorials on how to create a shape.Click the "Rectangle Tool" and then "Ellipse Tool" to make a shape.
- 11Next, click "Selection Tool" in the top left-hand corner of the vertical toolbar.
- 12A blue outline should appear around the object, signalling that it's selected and ready for editing.Then, simply click the object.
- 13You can refer to other VisiHow tutorial on how to do that. You can start to edit your object.You can hide your stroke color.
- 14The icon goes from dark to light in color. You can begin editing.After that, click the "Gradient" icon at the right-hand side of the window.
- 15Click the drop-down menu for the colors.
- 16In this video, we click "White, Black". The canvas will be updated.Click a gradient color.
- 17It can be either "Radial" or "Linear".Click the "Type" drop-down menu.
- 18This will change how far the dark or the light color comes across.Next, you can click and drag the "Gradient Slider" right and left sliders.
- 19Click the "Angle" drop-down menu.
- 20Alternatively, just type the value.Click a degree value.
- 21To change the color of the gradients, double-click the right slider to bring up the dark color.
- 22Choose opacity and click a color.
- 23Then double-click the left slider to change the light color.
- 24Choose opacity and click a color.
- 25This will allow you to add multiple colors, not just two, to your gradient line.You can also add more anchor points by clicking the gradient line.
- 26Double-click the extra anchor lines to change the midtone colors as well.
- 27Choose opacity and click a color.
- 28From "Gradient", you can also click the "Opacity" drop-down menu.
- 29Click a percentage or type it in the "Opacity" box.
- 30You can also click the "Location" drop-down menu.
- 31Become familiar and experiment with the tools.Click a percentage or type it in the "Location" box.
- 32Click away from the "Gradient" window and the "Gradient" effect will be applied to your object.
This concludes our tutorial showing you how to create a "Gradient" effect in Adobe Illustrator CS6 in Windows 7. If you have any questions or queries regarding this tutorial, just add them to the comment section below. Thank you for choosing VisiHow!
Video: Create Gradient in Adobe Illustrator CS6
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Can I make a vertical and horizontal gradient in the same shape?
I want to have the area of a shape gradient into one color horizontally, and another color vertically. Is that possible?
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