Adobe illustrator 10 Manuale Utente
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Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns
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In the Color palette, select a color using the sliders or the color bar.
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In the Swatches palette, select a swatch.
To add color to a mesh point or mesh patch by dragging and dropping:
Do one of the following:
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Drag a color from the Color palette directly over a mesh point or mesh patch and
release the mouse button.
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Drag a swatch color from the Swatches palette directly over a mesh point or mesh
patch and release the mouse button.
To add color to a mesh point or mesh patch with the paint bucket:
1 Select the paint bucket tool.
2 Click directly on a mesh point or a mesh patch. The point or patch is colored with the
current fill color.
current fill color.
Creating and working with patterns
To create a pattern, you create artwork you want to use as a pattern and then drag the
artwork to the Swatches palette or use the Edit > Define Pattern command. You can use
paths, compound paths, or text with solid fills or no fill for a pattern, or you can design a
pattern from scratch with any of the tools in the Adobe Illustrator program. (However,
you cannot use patterns, gradients, blends, brushstrokes, meshes, bitmap images, graphs,
placed files, or masks in a pattern.) You can customize any pattern by resizing the pattern,
moving or transforming it, or coloring its objects.
artwork to the Swatches palette or use the Edit > Define Pattern command. You can use
paths, compound paths, or text with solid fills or no fill for a pattern, or you can design a
pattern from scratch with any of the tools in the Adobe Illustrator program. (However,
you cannot use patterns, gradients, blends, brushstrokes, meshes, bitmap images, graphs,
placed files, or masks in a pattern.) You can customize any pattern by resizing the pattern,
moving or transforming it, or coloring its objects.
Patterns intended for filling objects (fill patterns) differ in design and tiling from patterns
intended to be applied to a path with the Brushes palette (brush patterns). For best results,
use fill patterns to fill objects and brush patterns to outline objects.
intended to be applied to a path with the Brushes palette (brush patterns). For best results,
use fill patterns to fill objects and brush patterns to outline objects.
How patterns tile
When designing patterns, it helps to understand how Adobe Illustrator tiles patterns:
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Patterns tile from left to right from the ruler origin (by default, the bottom of the
artwork) to the top of the artwork. Typically, only one tile makes up a fill pattern. Brush
patterns can consist of up to five tiles—for the sides, outer corners, inner corners, and
the beginning and end of the path. The additional corner tiles enable brush patterns to
flow smoothly at corners.
patterns can consist of up to five tiles—for the sides, outer corners, inner corners, and
the beginning and end of the path. The additional corner tiles enable brush patterns to
flow smoothly at corners.
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Fill patterns tile perpendicular to the x axis. In contrast, brush patterns tile perpen-
dicular to the path (with the top of the pattern tile always facing outward). Also, corner
tiles rotate 90 degrees clockwise each time the path changes direction.
tiles rotate 90 degrees clockwise each time the path changes direction.
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Fill and brush patterns also tile differently in relation to the pattern bounding box—
an unfilled and unstroked rectangle backmost in the artwork. For fill patterns, the
bounding box acts as a mask; fill patterns tile only the artwork within the pattern’s
bounding box. In contrast, brush patterns tile artwork within the bounding box and
protruding from or grouped with it.
bounding box acts as a mask; fill patterns tile only the artwork within the pattern’s
bounding box. In contrast, brush patterns tile artwork within the bounding box and
protruding from or grouped with it.