Please make gradients optionally "global", too !

[Lorox]

I'm currently working on a project where gradients play an important role and I feel the necessity to change and adjust gradients repeatedly while I go along.

However, once a gradient swatch has been added to a colour palette this particular swatch can't be edited and you have to go for all the colours separately that make up the gradient in question. You're just a bit lucky if you have at least used global colours for this but anyway the given/original gradient swatch won't change according to the edits you've done.

Obviously, when you have used these global colours in more than one gradient but only actually want to edit the colours of one of them you're going to run into trouble, anyway...

The only solution IMHO would be allowing global gradient swatches "as such" where your edits will happen on (just) the gradient itself and the colours are not sort "drawn" from elsewhere (meaning the global colours).

When you use some global colour within a global gradient it should be detached from its original (which remains global as before on a solid colour basis) or – so to speak – should lose its "globalness" once it is used inside a global(!) gradient as the latter will take over the global aspect – now as a property of the gradient not of the colour as such)

Once you begin to think about it, it actually might get a bit tricky, but I guess it should be feasible, as I don't remember having any of these problems when working in Illustrator or InDesign...

[Dazmondo77]

This will hopefully get fixed somewhere down the line - the workaround is to first make your gradient from your global colours then goto your styles palette , and from the burger menu, add style from selection - which oddly does what you'd expect if you add the gradient to your document global swatches (which is currently broke) - the downside is it doesn't update the style (in the styles palate) when you change change your root globals - so I find it best to keep all my global gradients in a styles palette