The Adobe Illustrator interface includes several gradient swatches that you can customize to meet your needs. A gradient includes two or more colors that fade into the next and is useful for ...

Every aspect of type in Adobe Illustrator can be treated as a vector-drawing object with a fill and a stroke, or even a gradient fill, while preserving the ability to edit the text later. Text with a ...

Hold Shift + Left click and drag to make a small circle, give the circle a gradient of your choice. The circle is enlarged to make it more visible, but the actual circle is much smaller. Hold Alt + ...

In a previous article, I went into some elaborate detail about how to create and use the Gradient Mesh feature in Illustrator CS4 ( ). Today, in this second of a two-part series about gradient mesh, I ...

The ability to make custom patterns is quite helpful but learning how to make patterns that repeat seamlessly in Illustrator makes it even better. Patterns that will show where the edges repeat may ...