Comments on: Sneak Peek: Gradient strokes in Illustrator CS6

By: Lasse

Lasse — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:12:57 +0000

The tutorial leaves alot out, to say the least.. There´s no explanation of how you made the lighter shades of strokes of the exhaust pipe flow with the bigger exhaust part in the middle, which is THEE essential part. The rest could be done in 2 minutes in CS5. The new gradient function is great, but without the “flow” explanation it´s not really that usefull.

By: Lasse

Lasse — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:54:11 +0000

It´s f****ing stupid. They say the motorcycle file comes with the program, BUT WHERE!?!?!

By: nocturnal YL

nocturnal YL — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:15:59 +0000

Nice! Better (decades) late than never.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:49:26 +0000

Wow! the motorcycle. The idea of gradient strokes seemed sort of interesting in my naive perception, but seeing what someone knowledgable can do with it is fantastic.

and this video worked fine. I still don’t understand why I can see some, and others (content aware move today) are not visible in the blog (show a blank) and hence cannot be viewed.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:43:07 +0000

It is REALLY annoying to have your videos start on their own AND not have the video visible on your blog.

This means that I get the voice whether I want it or not and CANT shut if off because there is no video visibly running that can be stopped. The one today was a Shadow preview.

Other times the voices of TWO videos will run simultaneously so that neither can be heard.

This is a new feature, so to speak, in the last couple of weeks or so.

By: Andrew Meit

Andrew Meit — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:13:39 +0000

When FH 3.1 was being developed, mid 90s, this was explored and even a prototype was created. So what took you guys so long ?? ;-) It must have come from the patents from Macromedia via Altsys. :-) Thank you for finally doing this key feature.

[I remember FreeHand offering contour gradients (sort of like bevels), which I always thought looked cool. Gradient strokes can be used in some similar ways. --J.]

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:50:21 +0000

Brilliant – seriously looking forward to CS6. Configurator support and the new focus on UI consistency across the apps we haven’t seen yet would be a bonus, but there’s an upgrade waiting here regardless. :)

By: SinisterKid

SinisterKid — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:40:09 +0000

Great to hear this is finally being added, I’ve wondered why this option has been available in InDesign for years, but not Illustrator?