Comments on: Applying a gradient to a path – Gradient Brush

By: Debora

Debora — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:48:22 +0000

George,

Genius! Thank you for being clear, concise, and thorough!

All my best to you,
Debora

By: George

George — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:45:04 +0000

I don’t know of any way to do this “cleanly” in the current build of Illustrator. You could manually do something similar using a gradient mesh, but it would likely be quite time-consuming and tedious.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:05:42 +0000

Thanks for this. Is there a ‘clean’ way to achieve this effect? I’ve tried various methods in trying to achieve a gradient on a rounded letter, but the edges are choppy. Is there a way to do this, say on the letter ‘O’ so that the edges maintain ‘crispness’ (no loss of precision)?

Thanks in advance -

By: Anthony V. Gibby

Anthony V. Gibby — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:46:57 +0000

I really would like to thank you for this tutorial. I spent almost an hour searching google for Illustrator how-to’s to get a path to follow a circle path. Additionally, I the info about the clipping mask is priceless. I would have not figured that one out by myself.

By: George

George — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:59:31 +0000

Asia,

If the stroke is grayed out, it’s likely due to not having a stroke applied to the box with the gradient, which is fine. The fill (in this case the gradient) is really the only thing that you need to expand.

By: Asiaed

Asiaed — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:43:40 +0000

What would cause the “stroke” in “expand” be grayed out and unselected. cause i can’t get it to work
Thank you
Asia

By: Michael Saganowski

Michael Saganowski — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:18:22 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial, I was looking for an answer for long time. Much appreciated!