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Apr 16, 2012

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Sneak Peek: Gradients on Strokes

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Strokes are core to drawing in Illustrator, and for Illustrator CS6, the ability to apply gradients on strokes will let designers transform simple paths into visually complex and compelling shapes. And the beauty of this approach, beyond the imaginative artwork, is that the shape that’s created is an easily edited stroke – not a typical shape that’s defined by many points.

 In Illustrator CS6, gradients on strokes can be applied along the length, across the width, or within a stroke, but the real magic happens when these new gradients are combined with the variable width stroke feature introduced in CS5.

Join Illustrator product manager Brenda Sutherland as she shares this exciting new creative tool coming in Illustrator CS6. Remember, Adobe Illustrator will be included in the upcoming Adobe Creative Cloud Membership!

 

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  • Matloobali79

    really cool

  • http://twitter.com/b0tack b0tack

    cooolll

  • http://www.facebook.com/kong.kear Kong Kear

    Wow…! Amazing Stroke in Illustrator CS6

  • Mario

    Looks tasty. But it will wszsytko ornaments on the Christmas tree, if not corrected the most serious problems Illustrator, which kill the joy of creation.
    The first is speed, speed, speed and action live when more complex work using the tool Illustartor.
    The second is the build-up over the years, not unnecessarily complicated to use tools.
    I hope that after CS5 Adobe realized that you can not revive a corpse indefinitely only breed a new generation.
    With all due respect to previous editions, and the great work involved.

    I would be very sorry if this time I will have to refuse to purchase.
    I look forward to a really modern and contemporary tools build on the experience of former Illustartora and FreeHand.

  • Japaman

    I have a gigant smile on my face :D

  • Cre8ivebug

    That bike is Royal Enfield- Made in Chennai, India!

  • http://profiles.google.com/lastone1968 LA Stone

    What I wish for in Illustrator 6 is touch support for Windows tablet PCs. Drawing on my tablet PC is very difficult since Illustrator has no touch support.

    I also would like to be able to customize the interface the way Serif DrawPlus and CorelDraw are customizable. This would further make it easy to draw on my tablet PC. Illustrator has the best brush support and all of my work ends up in either Illustrator or Photoshop. So I would ideally prefer to do my drawing in Illustrator. I’ve had to convert a lot of Illustrator brushes for use in DrawPlus. Currently I’m using Serif DrawPlus for drawing then going through a whole lot of export/cleanup, etc to get into something usable. Hopefully Adobe will already be working on this.

    Photoshop CS5 has good touch support already though the interface is not very customizable for use on a tablet PC. Strangely, the Photoshop CS6 demo seems to have broken that touch support. I don’t know what that means but I hope it will be sorted out before the final release.

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  • WhiteBlood

    very good…

  • CircleUranus

    Gradients have ALWAYS been a weak point in Illustrator… and it appears that the basic functionality is no better in this video…. I notice the ‘color stops’ in her gradient pallette exhibit the same flaws I’ve been frustrated with for years….. which is: every time you ‘add’ a color stop into the gradient, you DON’T get a smooth tonal transition between the far left stop and the far right stop – assuming a new total of a 3 color gradient…. you get a funky, odd lighter color between the two extremes… and no amound of adjusting the transitional sliders helps. This even assumes you have white at the left, black at the right… and you insert a 40% black in the middle. Jacked.

    • JohnGuest

      try rgb next time. cmky gradients do what you’re describing.

  • Namon8

    i love this future . thanks for add this option

  • http://profiles.google.com/estherama1 Esther Abraira

    ok, but I need apply gradient to stroke in my Cs5 …Can somebody teach me ?

    • ME

      You cant, only by expanding the object or outline it you will be able to apply gradient, CS5 doesnt support gradients on strokes.

  • Diane

    Does this work in both cmyk and rgb? Comments below seem to indicate no. I am new to CS6, and cannot see where exactly is this toolbar or button?

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