illy circle gradient?
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- indian_pole
i want a circle, starts at 100% colour, and goes to 0% as it goes round.
basically a gradient around the circumference (i.e. not a linear gradient accross the whole shape).
but i cant for the life of me figure out how to do it!!! please help.
- elms0
in the gradient window click on "show options" and then you can choose the type of the gradient (radial)
- indian_pole0
sorry, i dont want a radial gradient either,
anyone remember the old macromedia.com loading circle? that kind of thing.
- elms0
ah, ok
- honest0
this is theory only, but could you make a brush which was a gradient, then draw a circle in illy with a thick stroke, stroke the path to be your gradient brush?
- elms0
cant make a brush form gradient
- indian_pole0
zgotta be a way dammit!
- elms0
photoshop :/
and then mask it in illy...
- indian_pole0
yeah, i'm thinking thats the only way, but not vector.
cheers.
- MX_OnD0
how about taking a rectangle with the gradient and bending it??
- Maaike0
Create an object with a feather filter applied to it. Create another object you want the gradient to be applied to (i.e circle). highlight both (feathered object on top) and go to the transparency pallette and play round with the 'make opacity mask' function.
A better explanation of this process available on illustrator online. I find this allows you to get the shape and the amount of gradient on the edge exactly right. hope this helps.
- elms0
also polar grid tool in illy, put 100+ radial dividers and skew to -5%. but its not very "realistic" looking...
- honest0
hog darn it, an expect's lurking here today, how are you Maaike?
- Maaike0
I wouldn't call myself an 'expect' at all. I just had the same problem last week!
I'm well very honest, howe are you?
- Maaike0
Aah. yeah the thing i suggested before creates something different.
Probably best to just use the mesh tool for this - create a shape, apply an (organised) pattern of points and change the gradient percentage slightly on each of those points as you go along. this might be a very laborious fiddly way of doing it though..
good luck!
- Nairn0
http://members.shaw.ca/spvincent…
Check out 'Mesh Utils', that might be of help (Mac CS2 only - quite why Illy doesn't have 'radial' gradients, I'll never know... pfft)
- Nairn0
You can also cheat and do it with two hemispheres..
- pyeaton0
Try creating a stroked ellipse. Add like a 15-20 pt stroke to it. Then use the scissor tool to cut the circle at the top. Then, this is where it gets funky, you are going to have to do one of 2 things. You can use the Gradient mesh tool to add your gradient. The mesh tool is still a bit og a mystery to me. I am sure there are people in here that know it a lot better than I do. So, once you are done with that, you can add an anchor point to the center (for the arrow part) and pull it out to form it. Hope this helps to some degree.
- Nairn0
er.. and the two hemisphere have top-down/down-top gradients, consisting of:
Left Hemisphere..
White at top
mid-grey at BottomRight Hemisphere..
Black at top
mid-grey at bottom.
- pyeaton0
Nairn:
Nice work! Did you draw the circle and then slice it?