Maureen Neuringer | COMD 3711 | Section D030

05 Discussion

Each week you will need to respond to two questions posted. Your response should be a minimum of 150 words for both questions. You should also include at least one response to your fellow students. The responses are a requirement for participation part of your grade.

Question 01 –

Name three kinds of controls you have over a gradient?

Question 02 –

How would you change the color of a gradient stop? Describe three ways to change colors.

7 Comments

  1. Daniah Saifan

    1. There are three kinds of controls you have over a gradient. The first is linear gradient, which smoothly transitions between colors in a straight line. The second is the radial gradient, which transitions between colors from the center to the outwards. The third is the freeform gradient, which smoothly transitions between colors either in an ordered or random sequence. 

    2. To change the color of a gradient stop different methods can be applied. A color can be dragged into the gradient stop. Another way is selecting the gradient stop, and double clicking on it to show the color palette. Or the color can be changed simply using the eye drop tool. 

  2. Alvaro Panozo

    1. With the gradient tool we can control the way it looks in many different ways, so for example, if we want our gradient to be in a radial form or in a linear form we can change that. Just click on the gradient menu and you’ll see the radial and linear format, there is also a freeform option that allows you to put colors wherever you want on your shape or figure. Another is switching the colors by bringing up your swatches menu, this allows you to get any color into your gradient. You can access your own personal swatches or access Adobe’s swatches, which in my opinion are very good colors for projects. You can also control how big or small you want the gradient to be by clicking on the perimeter of the gradient. This helps with fitting the gradient onto any objects or shapes on your artboard.
    2. A way in which you can change the color of a gradient stop is by clicking it and then another menu will pop up where you can choose from your own personal swatches or you can access Adobe’s swatches. I usually do it this way because I like to use some of the pantone colors. Another way is by dragging them in and out, by clicking first and then dragging, you can choose from any color that you have on your workspace, this way however is very tiring in my opinion. Another way is by using the eyedropper tool, I personally use this all the time because it makes your life easier. It’s very accurate and gets the job done quicker. Just click on the eyedropper tool and then click on the color that you want to change to. However, make sure your shape or figure is selected first, then select the eyedropper tool.
  3. Account Deleted

    1. There are various options you can explore with the controls over a gradient. One example is by choosing a type of gradient you are applying to an object/design from linear, radial, or freeform. Within the gradient panel you can then change the angles of the gradients being applied. Therefore, add as many color stops to a gradient by clicking on the bottom of the gradient slider. To delete a color, you will need to select the color stop and drag it down or click on the trash icon located at the right side.
    2. To change a color of a gradient, one example is by double clicking on a color stop from the gradient slider. A pop up will appear, where you can choose any of the following options from color, swatches, and color picker. Another example, at the bottom of the gradient panel you can directly choose the color picker icon located next to the opacity and location. Therefore, clicking on the fill of the gradient panel and selecting a color then dragging it down to a color stop is another alternative. In order to apply a color stop to a gradient you will need to select the object/design to do so.
    • Alvaro Panozo

      Hello, I also double click on a color stop when changing colors, mostly because I have most of my swatches open already. That or I use the eyedropper tool.

  4. Franchesca Salas

    One way to work around the gradient tool is by changing where it can be the brightest in color on one end or vice versa, in a straight line, this is called linear gradient. I can shift how much of a specific color I want on one end so it can pop more. This same color pop option can be used with the radical gradient which starts from the center and spreads to the edges. Gradient swatches can also be made by dragging the new gradient swatch to the swatch panel and being used for future similar gradient objects.

    The three main ways to change the colors in the gradient window are by dragging a color at the right end and a different color at the other left end. Another thing that can be done but usually ends up in the colors turning muddy is by adding more than one color point in the gradient. Another cool thing as mentioned before is that you can save gradients as swatches and reuse them for the next object you plan to have a similar gradient.

    Changing the color for the color stop is another option, this can be achieved by double clicking on it and picking a color from the pop-up color wheel. etc.

    Picking colors from the Pantone palette is an alternative way to picking colors as well. You can access this by going to the swatches window, opening up the open swatch library, followed by the color book, there you have a variety of options to pick from depending on what you will be going for, I usually go for the Pantone + solid coated.

    • Darren Le

      Hi, thank you for sharing. I total agree that one of the three main ways to change colors in a gradient window is to drag one color on the right end and another on the left end of color stop

  5. Darren Le

    1.Name three kinds of controls we have over a gradient: one is stopping control, second is we can use linear or radial gradients. Radial allows the color to expand from the center of the object. whereas, linear allows the color to expand from one side to the other. Another thing that we can do on the gradient panel is to change the gradient to any color that we desired. This can be done by selecting the desired color from the color panel and dragging it to the gradient panel. Lastly, more than one color can be added and the intensity of the colors can be changed.

    2.I would change the color of a gradient stop in many ways. Three ways to change color. One way is to drag a swatch color into that stop, which changes its color. Another way is to double-click on that stop, which brings up multiple color menus, such as CMYK, or RGB options. We can fine-tune the color you’d like straight from those menus. A third way is using the eyedropper tool in the gradient panel. Simply make sure that the stop you’d like to change is selected, then click on the eyedropper icon. And then click on wherever we want to change color to look like it.

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