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- [Voiceover] In this movie,

we'll add a gradient fill



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to the background, and we'll

lay down a couple of base



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strokes, and we'll see how

stacking order here inside



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the appearance panel can

effect the behavior of fill



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and stroke attributes

along with dynamic effects.



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If that sounds a little

mysterious right now,



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believe me it will make

perfect sense in the end.



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Alright, so I'll switch

over to our document so far



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and I'll make sure that

the polygon is selected by



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pressing Control A, or

Command A on the MAC,



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and assuming that your working in the most



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recent version of Illustrator CC,



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you should see the word polygon over here



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on the far left side of the control panel.



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Alright now our first step

is going to be to build



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a gradient fill and things

are just going to work



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out better if we are working

in the CMYK color space.



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So I am going to go up to the file menu,



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choose Document Color Mode,

and then choose CMYK color.



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Now what you want to do

is make sure your fill is



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active by clicking on the fill item



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here inside the appearance panel.



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Then, you want to go up to

the menu window and choose



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Gradient to bring up the gradient pattern.



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Now we need our gradient

panel to be bigger than this,



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and if yours is shell like

mine then go ahead and click



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this double up arrow

icon a couple of times



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in order to make it nice and big.



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And then just go ahead and

click on this gradient ramp



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right there in order to

assign a dummy gradient,



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which by default is going

to go from white to black.



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Of course this is not what we want,



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so go ahead and double

click this first color stop,



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this little guy below the gradient ramp



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in order to bring up this color panel.



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And as opposed to viewing

swatches, we want to see colors



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so go ahead and click on

this little pallet icon,



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and then click on this little

fly up icon right there



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and switch to CMYK.



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That will give you the cyan, magenta,



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yellow and black sliders.



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We want the first one, C, to

be zero, so leave it that way.



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Then we are going to

change magenta to 85%,



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tab to yellow and change it to 100%,



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and then tab to black and

change it to 35%, like so.



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Alright now this last guy

is currently black and



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we don't really want that,

but I can't get rid of it yet



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because you have to have

at least two color stops.



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So what you want to do, just

for the sake of efficiency



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here, is alter option drag

this first color stop like so,



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and that will make a duplicate of it.



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Then, you can grab this

black color stop and drag



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it downward to get rid of it.



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Right now drag this guy

all the way over to the



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right hand side and double click on it



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to once again bring up the CMYK values.



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Because we copied the first guy,



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our magenta and yellow

values are just fine



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all you need to do is correct

the K value up to 100%,



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and that way we are mixing 100% black ink,



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along with 100% yellow, and 85% magenta.



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Which means we have a

total of 285% of ink,



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which is about as much as you want.



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It gives us this nice

rich, dark brown over here



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on the right hand side of

each one of the hexagons.



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Alright now we want to make

a duplicate of this guy,



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so go ahead and alter option

drag it over to the left.



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We are looking for a

location value of 50%,



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so go ahead and enter that,



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and then double click on

this middle color stop,



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leave the magenta and

yellow values alone once



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again, and change that K

value, which represents



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black to 75% and press the Enter key,



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or the Return key on the

MAC, to accept that change.



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This is the gradient we're looking for,



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but we need to make one more modification,



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and that is to change

the type from Linear,



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to Radial, which gives

us this effect here.



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Alright now we need to

add a couple of strokes,



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so go ahead and click on

the stoke item here inside



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the appearance panel

and we need a little bit



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more room to work so go ahead and collapse



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that gradient panel once

again, or better still,



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just go ahead and switch

back to the stroke panel.



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And now, I'm going to crank

up this line weight value to



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28 points in order to create

these very thick strokes here,



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but this is not the

color I am looking for.



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You can click on this

little color swatch there if



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you want to select a

predefined color from your



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swatches panel, but that

is not what we want to do.



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We want to dial in our own

color, so notice when I



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hover over this swatch up

here it tells me to hold



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the shift key to bring

up an alternate color UI,



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and that's what I want.



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And, I will go ahead and click in order to



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make that one go away,



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and shift click in order

to bring up my CMYK values.



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I am going to change the C value to zero,



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I am going to change magenta

value to once again 85%,



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take the yellow value up to 100%,



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and take that black

value up to 100% as well.



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So, we are dialing in

that rich, deep brown.



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Alright, now we want to

create another stroke,



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and you can do that by clicking

on the Add New Stroke icon



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in the bottom left corner

of the appearance panel,



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or you can press Control-Alt-/,



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or Command-Alt-/ on the MAC.



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Alright, this time I want

yellow, so I am going to



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shift click once again on

that little color swatch



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there to bring up the CMYK values,



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and I am going to leave

the cyan value alone.



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Take the magenta value down to 35%,



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take the yellow value down to 85%,



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and the K, or black value, down to 0%,



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and that will give us this

very bright yellow right here.



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Alright now take that line

weight value down to 8 points



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in order to produce this effect.



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Now, as you can see we have some problems.



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We have these obvious

seams between the strokes,



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and each and everyone of

the hexagons is filled



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with a radio gradient.



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What we want is this,



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seamless transitions between the strokes,



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and one big radial

gradient in the background.



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To make that happen we need to change



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the order of the

attributes and the effects.



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And to make a long story short

we need to click on the first



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transform and shift click on the last one,



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and then just go ahead and drag them



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and drop them on top of

the attributes like so.



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The reason this works out,

is this way, this is kind



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of weird the way this works

in the appearance panel.



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They are a little bit upside down.



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This guy right here, if you click on it,



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he represents the very first

transform effect we applied,



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and so rather than the first

stuff being at the bottom,



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the first stuff is at the top.



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So what's happening here as

a result of dragging these



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effects to the top is that

we are applying the effects



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first, and then, we're adding the



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fill and stroke attributes.



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Which is why before, we had this effect,



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and now we have this one

where all the strokes



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are working out seamlessly.



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Alright, the last thing

I want you to do is to go



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up to the window menu and

choose the Transform command



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to bring up the transform panel,



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and assuming you are working

in the most recent version



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of Illustrator CC then you

will have the option of



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changing the corner radius right here.



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I want you to take that

value up to 20 points,



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and press the Enter key, or

the Return key on the MAC,



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to round off the corners

of that first hexagon which



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ends up creating this nice

round honeycomb effect.



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And that is how you fill a

shape with a radial gradient,



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as well as how you adjust the

stacking order of attributes,



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and dynamic effects here

inside the appearance panel.