Illustrator CS4 Gradients

This is one of the most stunning tutorials I’ve ever seen. I pretty like of this one to help me using the Illustrator

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Thanks for sharing this. I’d love to see what’s new for Gradient Mesh in CS4 though…

Hi Cheryl!

Another tutorial that rocks the planet!

This is what I have been waiting for! Finally an upgrade to the gradient tool!

Thank you ,honestly Finally an upgrade to the gradient too…wooohooo

Finally that tool changed , thanx for that great vid

Great tutorial!
But really, Adobe… what a joke!
It took Illustrator 10 years or so to get the functionality of the the gradient tool that existed in Draw v8 or was it v5?

True, but the thing that kills me is that Illustrator still hasn’t touched it’s vector editing tools which are still 10 years behind current technology. Look at Xara it you want to find a truly intelligent application. I’t gradient creation and vector tools make Illustrators look like they are lightyears behind.

The color slider doesn’t appear on my object when I select the gradient tool and apply a gradient. Does anyone else have this problem?

Brilliantly demonstrated!!! Thank you so much. You are an artist using artistry for mere artisans who aspire to art at its most artistic!

BEAUTIFUL!!! I absolutely love this tutorial.

This tutorial is great but I’m missing the clipping mask step at the end. I’m not able to make the ring go in the back of the planet like you did.

I’ll continue playing with it but if someone has the answer, please help.

Thanks!

to Skyebeka I have the same problem and so do a few of my friends, I thought it was a problem with system requirements so I installed it on a quad PC and got hte same problem. anyone got any Ideas.???

I had to create a logo in PowerPoint once in order to have a transparency within a gradient. I’m glad to see Illustrator finally catch up with that. However, while I did enjoy the tutorial, the end with reference to the last steps went so quickly and I’m so inexperienced with Illustrator that I have no idea how to finish that project. Still, The tutorial was helpful and I love the transparency being added. I’m going to have fun with that!

Having same problem as Michael and Skyebeka - Can anyone identify why?

Just discovered the answer in order to view the gradient slider called “Gradient Annotator” you need to select the object with the Gradient Tool and make sure the View > Show Gradient Annotator is enabled.

As with Michael’s comment above I cannot seem to get the masking of the planet and the rings right, so that the rings go behoind the planet.

Is there a tutorial that could help?