pmeinertz Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 When using the gradient tool now you get a straight line where you move the colors. It would be great to be able to make that line curved, fx. using handles like when making normal curves. Then the gradients could be made move organic or follow curved shapes. A quick example below Raskolnikov and ronnyb 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 +1 for curved gradients! I think this would be very useful in Designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 +1 Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Ventura 13.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 16.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 20, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 20, 2015 I'll have a look at it one day - in the meantime there's usually workarounds (although they're normally not as dynamic in their nature, obviously) For instance, multiple shapes with conical fills could reproduce the image above, or if you were sure of the colours then you could just make a textured brush from a linear gradient and then apply it to the stroke. I'm not saying either of these are a solution to the problem, but at least it could be worked around for the moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenogre Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 +1 You can do this in AI (shortcut W). It's very useful, not specially for gradients but for duplicating ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmeinertz Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 I'll have a look at it one day - in the meantime there's usually workarounds (although they're normally not as dynamic in their nature, obviously) For instance, multiple shapes with conical fills could reproduce the image above, or if you were sure of the colours then you could just make a textured brush from a linear gradient and then apply it to the stroke. I'm not saying either of these are a solution to the problem, but at least it could be worked around for the moment... Hi, The multiple shapes workaround was what I did in the image, just to keep it simple. Soon I will post in "Share your work" a car rendering where the shapes are much more complex, where curvable gradients would have been so nice :) With all the other great UI solutions you have managed in AD so far to make it simple to use, I am sure you will find a great way to do this also ;) ! MattP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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