Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Tool
Corey experiments with Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh tool to create a bevel and emboss look.
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Comment by Greg Azzarelli | August 6, 2009 @ 8:02 pm
You guys rock..
Comment by Jimmy | August 6, 2009 @ 11:42 pm
thank
Comment by uton | August 7, 2009 @ 12:37 pm
Always useful and simply explained. Thank you!
Comment by Tia | August 7, 2009 @ 2:25 pm
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!
Comment by Rob Brideson | August 7, 2009 @ 7:43 pm
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.
Comment by JP | August 8, 2009 @ 11:41 am
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awesome thank you!!!
Comment by Christina Turner | August 11, 2009 @ 11:01 am
Very helpful tutorial.
Comment by Dub L | August 12, 2009 @ 8:05 am
When I switch to “overlay” or “hardlight”. Nothing Happens!!
Comment by Jonathan | August 18, 2009 @ 8:17 pm
OK. The answer to my question is: File>Document Color Mode>RGB
Great Tutorial. Thanks
Comment by Jonathan | August 18, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
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.
Comment by Monstermomma | August 21, 2009 @ 1:24 pm
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Comment by AiScribbler | September 1, 2009 @ 3:50 pm
This is very interesting, more to come i hope
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Thank you!
Comment by johannes | October 13, 2009 @ 8:17 am
how to download..????
Comment by eng | November 12, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
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.
Comment by Gallomimia | December 4, 2009 @ 3:24 am
Thank you ….very useful
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Comment by Carsten Mortensen | December 20, 2009 @ 7:20 am
Probably to leave colour schemes CMYK Color??? Thanks.
Comment by Stanislav | January 8, 2010 @ 4:22 am
Thanks!!
Comment by ana | January 27, 2010 @ 12:43 pm
Can this effect be achieved using CMYK? If so how?
Comment by EH | February 2, 2010 @ 12:40 pm
The Video stops before I was done watching it.
Comment by Katie | February 17, 2010 @ 3:43 pm
The video stops before I was done watching it. How can I fix it. I learning stuff here.
Comment by Katie | February 17, 2010 @ 3:50 pm
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?
Comment by Pascy | February 25, 2010 @ 6:56 pm
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!
Comment by Paul | March 19, 2010 @ 5:34 am
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