Register  |  Login




Advertisement

Start Your Own Q&A Site

Create your own Q&A site easily, allowing you to quickly grow a new community around any subject matter or generate new organic traffic for your existing website.

Question

Status: Closed Points: 75 Time: 09:41 - Dec 06, 2006  

mary2

How do you make a gradient effect with text in Adobe Illustrator?

Alright guys, graphics question for anyone who may know about it. I am using Adobe Illustrator and need to make some text that I wrote have a gradient mesh from top to bottom. Not really sure how to do this without creating outlines for the text and then going through each individual letter and using the gradient mesh tool. Any easier way?

Answer Discussion
Tutorials

 

rcastagna

Date:: Dec 07, 2006

Time:: 12:46

From my experience, you're still going to have to convert the type to outlines...the gradient mesh tool doesn't work on much except for "path" objects. When you do the convert, it will have all the new objects selected...at this point, you can apply your gradient mesh to the entire group, rather than letter by letter. Bear in mind, however, that the centerpoint of the mesh will be the center of the group, not the center of each letter. In order to achieve that, you'll have to do it letter by letter.

mary2

Date:: Dec 08, 2006

Time:: 10:32

Thanks rcastagna, you're right. I just needed to convert to outlines and then click the gradient in the swatch. I used the gradient tool to change the direction of the gradient and then can use the gradient tool pallet box (not sure what that is called) to switch the colors. Huge.

Question Answered

This question has been closed, and points have been rewarded to the following experts:


rcastagna: 75

You're welcome however to comment or give additional information or if you wish, you have the ability to write a Tutorial in the Tutorial Area.

Answer this Question

New User

Email:

Upon submission of this form, you will automatically be registered as a Quomon user and we will send your login information to this address

Registered User

Username:

Password:

Forgot Your Password?

No tutorials have been submitted yet. Want to be the first?

Answer this Question

New User

Email:

Upon submission of this form, you will automatically be registered as a Quomon user and we will send your login information to this address

Registered User

Username:

Password:

Forgot Your Password?

Ask a Question

Have a new question? Ask!

You have 100 characters to use



Top Experts

View More

Rank

Expert

Points

1.

nidhi

10354

2.

oracleofDelphi

6493

3.

rcastagna

5596

4.

LAGM

4848

5.

PeterNZ

3487

6.

gonzalo

2840

7.

Mason

2770

8.

jgivoni

2303

9.

xarcus

1820

10.

Anpanman

917

Become an Expert

Register today to share your knowledge with the community and be recognized and rewarded for your contributions.


Register Here




"Psst, Quomon is a great site. Pass it on."     Tell a Friend  |   Link To Us  |   Save to Delicious  |   Digg! Digg it



Language Options

English:

www.quomon.com

Español:

www.quomon.es