8 Replies Latest reply: Jun 19, 2011 12:34 PM by [scott] RSS

    Feathering effect in a pattern

    Rodieck Community Member

      I'm working on a repeating pattern based on a fireworks display.  I've placed an oval gradient behind each firework and used a feathering effect to give a glow.  It all looks good at first, but when I define the repeating pattern, the feather effect is gone.  Is there any way I can retain this effect?  I'm going to start playing with the gradient effect to see if I can work around the problem, but perhaps there's something I'm missing -- that if I knew more, there'd be a better way. I've used Illustrator for a while, but generally I do the same things over and over, so there's an enormous amount I dont know.

       

      I'm using CS5 on a Windows 7 machine.