Comments on: Illustrator CS4 Gradients

By: Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:50:38 +0000

Great tutorial! The gradient tool is very frustrating to a beginner like me, it took forever even to figure out how to change the color of it. Some of these posters are right, its very unintuitive to work with, even if it is very powerful. Your tutorial helped clear some things up… Btw, I’m using cs5 now, but all this is pretty much the same from what I can tell. Thanks!

By: Harley Johnson

Harley Johnson — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:04:12 +0000

I’ve never seen such a convoluted hotch-potch of unnecessarily complicated nonsense!

You’ve obviously never used FreeHand – itself the essence of speed and simplicity – which had ‘draw inside’ and perspective grids five years ago. It’s astounding that Adobe is still playing catch up.

Best of all, FreeHand is still alive and kicking, even though Adobe would like to think they’ve buried it. Listening to the above, you can see why.

Don’t get me wrong, Illustrator is a powerful app. But Adobe’s efforts to develop it over the past five years have resulted in probably the the most non-intuitive, and needlessly complex piece of overbloated software that could ever be conceived. But they can’t stop developing it can they, or they’ll become redundant. So what on earth will they do with it next? Sooner or later it’ll grind to a halt under its own weight and we’ll all be exalting FreeHand. Watch this space…

By: John Stanowski

John Stanowski — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:23:25 +0000

That’s funny, I said the same thing about the Blog Brush being in Corel 10 years ago in another tutorial.

Anyway, FANTASTIC PLANET!

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:15:33 +0000

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?

By: cassie

cassie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:18:40 +0000

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.

By: cassie

cassie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:28:05 +0000

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

By: Myshiloh

Myshiloh — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:12:51 +0000

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!

By: jonnycross

jonnycross — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:59:44 +0000

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.???

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:22:06 +0000

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!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:23:47 +0000

BEAUTIFUL!!! I absolutely love this tutorial.