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 ...

Adobe Illustrator includes many useful tools that can help you customize the appearance of an image. The "Eyedropper" tool allows you to sample, or "eye drop," a specific color from part of an image.

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 ...