Illy question - lame!
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- yarsrevenge
So I've asked heaps of designers and it seems as if you can't do gradients in illustrator like flash handles them where you can individually control the opacity of each color in your gradient. Is this true?
Another reason why flash is so much easier to use to manipulate vectors (unless you're using a complex gradient)
- brandelec0
gradient mesh?
- infostruct0
Not eaisier, just different. Play with opacity mask in Illy, you can do whatever you want with them.
I think flash is hell, but thats because I use Illy.
- Beech0
Flash doesn't generate correct post script, cause it doesn't have to for screen, so thats why it can do some different things (like have transparency in gradients).
Illustrator has to create a file that needs to be understodd by a printer.
I'm sure transparent gradients will be available in a future release.
- Hym0
but they are available
hah Adobe should just list Opacity masks as a new feature, it's amazing how few people know about it
- Beech0
Yeah, I was going to say i'm working in CS 1 ... getting a copy of CS 2 soon though, is it a standard feature Hym?
- Hym0
hah another one.
i think it was introduced in Illustrator6 and hans't changed much since.
you select the layer or group you want the mask to be applied on and you go to the transparency window, there you pick 'make opacity mask' a dashed line will appear under the layer name.
a mask can be anything, from a gradient to an image. Black is 0% opacity, White 100%. Just like a photoshop Mask
- Beech0
holy crap. thats awesome. I can't believe I never worked that out ... and now I do it, your right ... it makes so much sense.
Thanks Hym your a scholar and a gentleman.