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- [Voiceover] In this

movie I'll show you how



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to add transparency to a gradient in order



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to create this shine effect right here.



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Now the first I need to

do is bring back a couple



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of my path outlines by going up



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to the Object menu and choosing Show All,



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or you have that shortcut of Control+Alt+3



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or Command+Option+3 on the Mac.



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All right, now the only

one's we'll be using



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are these two right

here, so I'll Shift+Click



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on this guy with my black arrow tool



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and then I'll Shift+Click

on this big ellipse as well.



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And that leaves just three

paths selected, as you can see,



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at which point I'll

return to the Object menu,



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choose Hide, and choose

Selection, or just press Control+3



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here in the PC or Command+3 on the Mac.



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All right, now go ahead and

select these new ellipses



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by clicking on one and

Shift+Clicking on the other.



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And then, I want you to go up

to the Window menu and choose



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the PathFinder command to

bring up the Pathfinder panel



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and then just go ahead

and click on minus front



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in order to cut this front path away.



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And there's no way you

would know, of course,



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that one path was in front of the other



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unless you drew them yourselves,



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but all you'd have to do if you clicked



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the wrong one was press

undo and then try again.



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Anyway, I'm gonna go ahead

and hide the PathFinder panel.



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These shapes are now grouped together



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so I'll go up to the Object

menu and choose Ungroup



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and then I'll Shift+Click on

the top path to deselect it



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and I'll press the Backspace key



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or the Delete key on a

Mac to get rid of it.



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All right, now I'll go ahead and click



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this big path and I'll switch to my



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white arrow tool by pressing the A key.



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And now notice these round corner controls



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at the tips of the path outline.



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Go ahead and drag them

inward and as opposed



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to rounding off the

corners, for some reason



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Illustrator is choosing to bevel them off.



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What we want to do instead

is click on the word Corners



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up here in the control panel and go ahead



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and switch those guys to round, like so.



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And then go ahead and

take the Radius value



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to 50 points in order to

produce this effect here.



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And now if you press the enter key,



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followed by Control+Y

or Command+Y on a Mac.



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Well, I expected to see my template,



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but I forgot I turned it off,

so I'll go ahead and turn on



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the Template layer here

inside the Layers panel,



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and you can see this

path outline now traces



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around the reflection on the emoji's head.



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All right, now I'll press

Control+Y or Command+Y on a Mac



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to switch back to the preview mode,



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and I'll click on this gradient ramp



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here inside the Gradient panel in order



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to apply the default

black to white gradient.



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If you don't see that then

you can go ahead and click



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on a down-pointing arrowhead right there



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in the top left corner

of the Gradient panel



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and choose white-black from the list.



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All right, now I don't want the stroke,



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so I'll go up to my Strokes swatch,



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the second swatch on the far

left side of the Control Panel,



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and change it to none,

and then what I want



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to do is create a white to white gradient.



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So we're going from a white

color-stop that's opaque



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to a white color-stop that's transparent.



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And to make that happen, just go ahead



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and take this color-stop right there,



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the white one, and instead of dragging it,



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go ahead and press the Alt key

or the Option key on the Mac,



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and drag it in order to

create a copy, like so.



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Now I'll take this one and drag

it back to a location of 0%,



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and I'll also reduce

it's opacity value to 0%.



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And then press the Tab key in order



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to introduce transparency

into our gradient.



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Now I don't want this black color-stop,



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so I'll just drag it

away and then I'll drag



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this opaque white color-stop all the way



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to the right hand side of the gradient.



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All right, now I want this gradient to go



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from the top of the shape down,



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and so I'll go ahead and

change the angle value



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to 90 degrees and press the Enter key,



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or the Return key on the

Mac, to make that change.



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And so, whenever you're

working with gradients,



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bear in mind that this guy is

the beginning of the gradient,



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so the first color-stop,

the one on the left,



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is the beginning of the gradient,



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which is now located at

the bottom of the shape



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and this last guy is

the end of the gradient,



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which is located at the top of the shape



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because we're going upward

with an angle of 90 degrees.



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All right now, if you press

Control+Y or Command+Y on a Mac



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to switch to the outline modes



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so that we're no longer

seeing our gradient,



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we're seeing the gradient in the template,



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notice that it's not

quite all the way opaque



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up here at the top and it's not quite



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all the way transparent

down here at the bottom,



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which might be more obvious if I turn



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this layer off for a moment.



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So, notice we have a little

bit of opacity down here,



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and we have a little bit of

translucency up here at the top.



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All right, I'll go ahead and

turn the happy layer back on



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and press Control+Y or

Command+Y on the Mac



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to switch back to the preview mode,



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and I'll press the V key to

switch to my black arrow tool



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and I'll click on the shape to select it.



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And then I'll select this first color-stop



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and I'll take it's opacity value up to 10%



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and then I'll select the last color-stop



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and I'll take it's

opacity value down to 80%



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in order to produce

this effect right here.



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All right, now I recommend that

any time you put any amount



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of effort into a gradient you go ahead



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and save it as a swatch by

clicking on the little page icon



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at the bottom of the Swatches panel



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and then I'll just go ahead and

call this guy White to trans



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and click OK in order

to create that new stop.



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And that way I can apply this gradient



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to any other shape that I like.



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All right, just so we can

really take in the effect,



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I'll click off the shape to deselect it.



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And then you can see we now have



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this cartoon reflection

on our shiny emoji's head,



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thanks to our ability to

introduce transparency



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into a gradient by

associating an opacity value



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with any color-stop that we like,



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here, inside Illustrator.