antonkudin Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Would love to see one of my fav features in ai: you can assign a gradient to a stroke with an option to have it move along the stroke length, not just fill it. You can achieve same look in AD by creating a gradient, saving as an image, then creating image brush, but its a hustle and you can't change it quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonkudin Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 Look I'm going for: http://cl.ly/XuLl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted October 6, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 6, 2014 Thats pretty cool.. We'll talk to MattP and see what he reckons! AndyS antonkudin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonkudin Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 A kind-of-not-really workaround I found is to use an image brush that is a black-to-white gradient for the stroke and overlay that with gradient map effect. Its clunky and produces weird artefacts if color change is too sudden, but can work until a proper tool is introduced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbw Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I vote for this too. Currently the gradient only runs horizontally in lines, and then you can press the "Reverse" button to reverse it. A "Along Line" button would fit nicely right next to the "Reverse" button, so that the gradient ran along whatever direction the line went. You could get some pretty realistic brush strokes with a feature like this, when combined with a textured brush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Dalebout Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 AI doesn't have this feature so that would be awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CartoonMike Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 This could be a great feature. Create a gradient with 5 colors with the fifth one being mirrored on the beginning and ending of the gradient, then create a star shape and with just a bit of tweaking, a star with a rainbow stroke that has the pure color at each point. To quote a philosopher in this summer's movie of the year: "oh yeeaah." Quote Mac OS X Catinlina, 2014 iMac, 3.5 Ghz Intel Core i7, Huion Kamvas Pro 22 Graphic Tablet, 16GB RAM, MacOS10.12 || Magic keyboard w/numeric keypad, wireless trackpad, Kengsington Edge Trackball || Flux Capacitor in a secure location --- I encourage kids to go ahead and play on my lawn. I mean, how else can I make sure the death-traps work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted October 8, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 8, 2014 I can certainly look at making this happen... :) ...but I have a number of other things I've promised to do first, so give me some time! ;) antonkudin and mykyl66 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidpwrmc Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 @CartoonMike..... Definitely! A "philosopher" in the form of a talking raccoon with a large weapon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKudHBKdPU Why not? Sounds good to me. ;) - David CartoonMike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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