Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Tool

I just had a question of what is the best way to learn photoshop and illustrator? Would it be to self learn through these tutorials, or should I take classes? I have been playing around and doing lots of different pieces of work, but I would really like to know the nuts and bolts of both programs. I would like your advice. You really have a great web site and I enjoy all these tutorials however, sometimes it becomes overwhelming.
Thanks,
Greg

You guys rock..

thank

Always useful and simply explained. Thank you!

An excellent tutorial showing the use of gradient mesh tool and blending mode. I guess I have to say that I always wondered how it was done. Thanks!

Great as always. As a Layers mag subscriber, I sure wish I could subscribe to these via RSS and thus watch them on my TiVo HD from the sofa.

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awesome thank you!!!

Very helpful tutorial.

When I switch to “overlay” or “hardlight”. Nothing Happens!!

OK. The answer to my question is: File>Document Color Mode>RGB
Great Tutorial. Thanks

The light bulb lights, using a blending mode is my answer to being able to change the color of things. Wow so logical yet totally escaped me. Thanks for sharing this.

In response to Greg’s question about learning Ps & Ai…

Kelby training offers some great tutorials, Corey is an instructor on Kelby. Great instructors offering tutorials on all Adobe products at a very reasonable rate.

You can check out some of their stuff for free.
http://www.kelbytraining.com

This is very interesting, more to come i hope

Thank you!

how to download..????

Great tutorial! That looks like an awesome technique for making web grafix and the like. Let me ask, how does one get the gradient mesh working for a section of vectorized graphics with the “no” sign as you put in the beginning of the Tutorial.

Thank you ….very useful

Probably to leave colour schemes CMYK Color??? Thanks.

Thanks!!

Can this effect be achieved using CMYK? If so how?

The Video stops before I was done watching it.

The video stops before I was done watching it. How can I fix it. I learning stuff here.

Hi, i did it same time as you but mine didnt turn good. My hard light came gray and white not orange. I dont think i miss something. Can you tell me why?

I wish my iPod Touch could play Flash, so I could enjoy this too! I will try again from a PC. You guys rock! Apple / Adobe resolve the issue, or a smart marketing specialist will sell another inferior product to the masses that can!