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By: William

William — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:17:30 +0000

Eli Sand,

Thank you sooo much. You would not believe how much I wan’t to thank you. I was banging my head with this issue for so long. I was ready to reinstall Illustrator. can you imagine, it still wouldn’t have worked and I would have been clawing the walls.

I did what you said, and it works a dream.

Thanks.

By: Ale

Ale — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:41:50 +0000

Does anybody knows where how they call the gradient “screen” in illustrator CS4 in spanish? Thank you very much.

By: Yami

Yami — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:14:35 +0000

would you know how to get the star tool to make pentagrams? I’ve made them but i can’t seem to figure out what steps to take to make the star tool make them.

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By: Eli Sand

Eli Sand — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:40:05 +0000

For everyone having a very hard time getting the gradient + screen to work (so you don’t end up with a completely white area), the actual problem isn’t in selecting RGB or CMYK… it’s in the *black* you selected for your gradient!

If you look VERY carefully, you will see that the “black” in Illustrator sets *only* K (black) to 100%. However, for “screen” to work, you require CMY colours to all be 100%.

When you apply your black->white gradient, after doing that click the black colour box and edit your colour to be 100% CMYK – this will allow the “screen” method to work properly.

This should be noted in this guide, as this can be a very troublesome issue if you don’t know how CMYK colours work and how screen works either.

By: Aumlette

Aumlette — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:10:45 +0000

I think the tutorial is good but maybe not suitable for beginner. The gradient for the black, in CMYK you need to make sure that the black is really black (C=100, M=100, Y=100, K=100) and it will work just fine.

Thanks for the tutorial…
Aum

By: Vectordiary

Vectordiary — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:25:30 +0000

I guess CMYK doesn’t support Transparency that’s why setting it to screen doesn’t work.