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Swatches 1 'Gradients'     or buy using paypal   US $9 DOWNLOAD (also Euros, yen, GBP etc)   1600 Mixed gradient swatches inc. line gradients, satin gradients, smooth gradients and others   COMMERCIAL USE OK   Windows Vista + Windows XP + MAC OS X 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Adobe Illustrator CS3 + CS2 + CS + 10

Description

• 1600+ Super colorful gradient swatches
• Includes basic gradient swatches, inverted color gradient swatches, random color swatches, extreme gradients swatches, smooth gradient swatches, interweave gradients, satin like gradients, subtle gradients, beam gradients, line gradients and many more...
• Royalty-free, commercial and hobby work
• Gradient swatches are easy to use
• Swatches are easy to install in Illustrator ®. Access via the swatches palette.
• Swatches can be applied to text and paths. Overlay with other designs.
• Use swatches as frames.
• Gradient swatches can be modified and re-applied.
• Save swatches to other formats and export.
• Swatches can be transformed: scaled and rotated.

Additional image examples

Many different gradients are included

Or use as a frame design

Or modify the gradient stops to sharpen the gradient lines

Or combine multiple gradients and use different blending modes such as multiply to create a checkerboard design

Or use as a radial gradient

Documentation and gallery and samplers

Free sampler/demo

Documentation / Manual PDF

Thumbnail gallery

Examples 1

SVG Examples 123456

Tutorials 1

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Notes for gradients swatches

Install Illustrator swatches

Gradient swatches are installed in the presets gradients folder found in the Illustrator presets folder (if gradient swatches) or patterns folder (if patterns) and accessed via the swatches palette 'open swatch library' (or via the main windows menu). If you open a swatches you will see nothing, you will only see the swatches in the swatches palette

Swatch libraries AI

Gradient swatches are stored in native format AI files. Once a swatch has been accessed, the swatch is added to the document's swatch palette. You can then use the swatch throughout that Illustrator document. The swatch gradient can also then be modified

Modify gradient swatches

The gradient swatches can be modified via the gradient palette. Select a path, fill with the gradient swatch, display the gradient palette and modify the stop information or change the color of the stops as well as the midpoint information to blur or sharpen the gradient.

Fill paths with swatches

Gradient swatches can be used to fill normal paths as well as converted text (use the outline command). Select multiple paths and fill each with the current selected swatch. You can then modify the swatch from linear to radial or vica versa as well as change the length of the gradient and the angle or the center point of the gradient. Many different designs can be created by a simple change of gradient center position.

Position in swatches palette

Modify the position of the swatch in the swatches palette, simply select and then drag to the new position. The position is useful for some of the Andrew's vector plugins such as the gradient texture plugin found in the Andrew's Vector Plug-ins volume 3.

Radial gradient or linear gradient

The gradient swatches fail to save the type of gradient as well as other gradient information such as length and angle etc. Once the swatch has been applied to the path then the gradient can be further modified by using the standard gradient tools or various gradient plugins

Appearance palette

Combine multiple gradient swatches as fills via the appearance palette. Use different blending modes to add a gradient overlay to symbols (or transparency settings). These can in turn be saved as a graphic style and used in future projects in a new graphic styles library

Overlay and gradient swatches

Fill a path with a gradient swatch, duplicate, fill with a different gradient swatch and overlay both paths. Set the blending modes to difference or lighten or change the transparency and create stunning color designs.

CMYK gradients

Some of the gradient swatches are RGB and some are CMYK, you may wish to convert the color stops to the current document color.

Modify library directly

Instead of modifying an instance of a swatch, you may wish to edit the source swatch. Open the source library and edit the swatch, save the document (to the different or same version of Illustrator).

InDesign ®

The gradients can be used in some versions of inDesign, depends on the version of the saved AI file though formats have changed, this may or may not work with your version of inDesign

Expand gradient

Use the object > expand command to expand the gradient to a gradient mesh or a specified number of objects. The gradient mesh can then be further manipulated using the mesh tools or mesh plugin. The object option generates many additional paths and you will need to ungroup as well as release the clipping mask before you can truly explore the gradient paths. You can, of course, re-fill the paths with the gradient and modify the blending modes to create truly unusual color designs (especially if you shift the paths slightly or modify the path designs)