Getting started
You'll explore various ways to create your own color gradients and blend colors and shapes together using the Gradient palette and the blend tool.
Before you begin, you'll restore the default preferences for Adobe Illustrator. Then you'll open the finished art file for this lesson to see what you'll create.
1. | To ensure that the tools and palettes function exactly as described in this lesson, delete or deactivate (by renaming) the Adobe Illustrator 10.0 preferences file. See “Restoring default preferences” on page 4. |
2. | Start Adobe Illustrator. |
3. | Choose File > Open, and open the L8end.ai file in the Lesson08 folder, located inside the Lessons folder within the AICIB folder on your hard drive.
The chile peppers, CHILES type, and ... |
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