5 Replies Latest reply: Jan 23, 2013 2:08 PM by TwitchOSX RSS

    Gradient Swatches. How do I create one from one that is already in a document?

    TwitchOSX Community Member

      Downloaded an image from iStockPhoto. Opened up in Illustrator and removed the black background because I want to set my own values for the black background in InDesign.

       

      Noticed that there are several "bubbles" of black background behind the main image that contain radial gradients.

       

      These "bubbles" fade from a dark blue in the center out to black on the edge. Again, I want to be able to set this "black" to the value of black that I want to use for the background of the card. When I click on one of the bubbles, I see in my Gradient palette that it's a radial gradient and the value on the left of the slider is 100, 75, 0, 50 which I can see in the Color palette. But I can't change anything there. On the right of the slider in the Gradient palette is the "black" which is 80, 50, 0, 100.

       

      So, how do I modify the value of that black? If I choose "new swatch" in the swatches palette, it just creates a new swatch called "New Gradient Swatch 1" It shows Process Color for the color type below which is greyed out as well as everything below that.

       

      So, again, how do I go about changing the black on that gradient?

       

      IDCS 5.5