Monday, November 19, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007    
Adobe, one can create gradients in Flash and Fireworks where one of the colors can have transparency. Illustrator provides a workaround, but can't it be the same for you too? It's much more intuitive in Flash for my tastes.


3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...
 


“Er... NO

AI should have a tool ala InDesign CS3 for quick transparencies (not to mention the ability to make gradient stops transparent) but the opacity mask is a feature, not a workaround, and a very powerful one.

Try using a mesh with black and white points as an opacity mask and you'll see what I mean.”
 
Blogger e.dolecki said...
 


“I see your point, I shouldn't have said make it go away. However allow us an easy method to achieve similar results. Gradient stop transparencies is what I'm after.”
 
Anonymous John O said...
 


“I know what you mean, Eric. After CS3 was released, I figured I would give Illustrator another go. I used to use PS & AI all the time (probably for about 6 years) until I moved to Fireworks. So I jumped back on Illustrator and immediately started to work like I do in Fireworks.. and then hit the gradients. I got so aggravated that I went back to Fireworks the next day.

Until Adobe provides transparency gradient stops for Illustrator, I just can't see using it for Flash or Flex work.”
 
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