editing gradients

[Sweatman]

I was under the impression that you could only make a gradient fade in one direction.    According to this video I was wrong.     And I don't know how he did this.

Pls advise.

[loukash]

Looks to me as if the guy has duplicated the fill before adding the second gradient, both being set to Overlay blend mode or something like that.
But else, of course you can create similar gradients on a single object: add another color stop in the middle.

[R C-R]

Are you maybe talking about how he uses the AD Transparency Tool plus the Fill Tool on some of the shapes?

Aside from that both tools support more than just linear (uni-directional) types.

[walt.farrell]

6 hours ago, Sweatman said:

I was under the impression that you could only make a gradient fade in one direction. 

You can edit the color on each end of a gradient individually. And both ends can be made transparent.

[Sweatman]

I have no idea how he did, what he did in the video (12:31 - 12:35).   But he did it with only 2 clicks so he was not editing a gradient.   And you can tell from the icon that he only used the gradient tool.

[Ron P.]

1 hour ago, Sweatman said:

And you can tell from the icon that he only used the gradient tool.

No in that very first one, where you have the video cued, he's using the Transparency Tool, not the gradient. He first fills the curve/shape with yellow, then he has the transparency tool selected.

EDITED

I watched the cued part starting at 12:31. This is what he does that makes it appear as though he's using more than one gradient on the shape. Which in essence he is.

1. Completes his shape
2. Fills with white
3. Changes the Blend mode to Overlay. This gives it the yellow color.
4. Grabs and uses the Transparency Tool.
5. Groups the Shape. You can see this by the Blend Mode changing from Overlay to Passthrough
6. Uses the Transparency tool again, this time in the opposite direction. Thus he's now applied it 2x to the shape.

The Transparency tool is basically a gradient, %100 Opaque, which is White, to %0 Opaque, which is black.

[Sweatman]

First off - my apologies.   I did mean Transparency Tool.     That kinda messed things up...a lot.     Sorry.

And I tried your recipe.   Which is very cool, btw.    But I still couldn't replicate the same result.

 

 

[loukash]

6 hours ago, Ron P. said:

• Groups the Shape. You can see this by the Blend Mode changing from Overlay to Passthrough
• Uses the Transparency tool again

Clever trick!

[Alfred]

8 minutes ago, loukash said:

Clever trick!

I’ve known this trick for quite a long time, but ‘grouping’ a single object isn’t exactly intuitive!!