Blending Colors and Shapes - Adobe Illustrator CC - page 500

Gradient fills are graduated blends of two or more colors. Using the Gradient tool and/
or the Gradient panel, you can create or modify a gradient fill or a gradient stroke.
With the Blend tool, you can blend the shapes and colors of objects together into a
new, blended object or a series of intermediate shapes.
Getting started
You'll explore various ways to create your own color gradients and to blend colors and
shapes together using the Gradient tool, the Gradient panel, and the Blend tool.
Before you begin, you'll restore the default preferences for Adobe Illustrator CC. Then
you'll open the finished art file for this lesson to see what you'll create.
Note
If you have not already downloaded the project files for this lesson to your
computer from your Account page, make sure to do so now. See the “ Get-
ting Started ” section at the beginning of this topic.
1. To ensure that the tools and panels function exactly as described in this lesson, de-
lete or deactivate (by renaming) the Adobe Illustrator CC preferences file. See
“ Restoring default preferences ” in the Getting Started section at the beginning of
the topic.
2. Start Adobe Illustrator CC.
3. Choose File > Open, and open the L9_end.ai file in the Lessons > Lesson09 folder
on your hard disk.