The Adobe Illustrator interface includes several gradient swatches that you can customize to meet your needs. A gradient includes two or more colors that fade into the next and is useful for ...

Grunge gives images a fun and artistic look that attracts attention. While Adobe Photoshop has many built-in tools for this effect, creating a grunge look in Illustrator takes more work. To create ...

In a previous article, I went into some elaborate detail about how to create and use the Gradient Mesh feature in Illustrator CS4 ( ). Today, in this second of a two-part series about gradient mesh, I ...