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Hi, in this video we're going to look
at more Blending Modes.
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We're going to look at Gradients
along Strokes.
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They kind of start overlapping
and doing fun stuff.
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We'll also look at jamming
a Gradient inside Type.
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Just so you know...
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it's so that you can kind of do this.
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You can see how they
start interacting with each other.
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You can see kind of cool,
unexpected colors...
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and awesomeness start happening.
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So that's what we're going to do
in this video, let's jump in.
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First up, open up 'Gradient Color Mixes'
from your 'Exercise Files'.
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This is a mock up.
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I made this actually in XD.
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If you haven't used XD, it's great
for prototyping websites or apps.
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I've got a course on that,
go check that out.
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So I've made this, but I want
to add a flurry of color.
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Like we saw on the side here
when we used Blending Modes.
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 Something like XD doesn't have this,
so we'll end up swapping between XD...
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to do all the kind of core stuff,
like buttons and navigation stuff.
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Then out to Illustrator to do some...
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slightly more advanced kind of things, 
like Color Blending.
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More color blending, yes.
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I'm going to use the Curvature Tool 
to make that first bike.
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Click once, click again,
then kind of make it that shape.
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Now what I would like to do is...
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by default, it would probably
just have a black line.
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You might have a Fill, get rid of the Fill,
it might be white, and no Stroke.
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Remember, in an earlier tutorial,
you might not have done it.
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So what we can do is, first of all,
the Width Tool, it's this guy here.
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I'm going to grab this end 
to kind of make it.
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That gives me my nice even
kind of pokey thing.
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Next thing, I want to add 
a Stroke Gradient.
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There's kind of a new version 
of Illustrator.
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Under 'Strokes', if you're using
this particular file...
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I've got all these Gradients already loaded
in here for you.
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If you don't, obviously you can use
the Gradient Tool.
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It's under 'Window', 'Gradients',
and make your own.
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But I'm going to...
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click on one of these,
decide which one I want to use.
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No right or wrong.
You might hate Gradients.
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Now the one thing 
with Gradients though is...
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if I open up 'Gradient Options',
or go to 'Window', 'Gradient'...
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then applying it to the Stroke,
you need to go left to right...
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because that's what it's doing.
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Or the second one in this,
that's what I want.
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I want it to kind of follow the line.
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This one here goes left to right,
following the line...
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this one goes straight down
following the line.
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This one here just goes
like left to right...
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regardless of where the Stroke goes.
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Hopefully that makes sense.
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You can flip it, there's an option
there to flip...
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deciding on how you want to do it.
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All I'm going to do now for a second...
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is, let's speed this up...
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because all I'm going to do 
is rotate them, and spin them around.
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So let's go speedy version.
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Okay, we're back.
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If you were to watch that real time,
it took me forever.
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I don't know why, I'm just trying to--
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I don't know, it's not flowing right.
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But you get the idea, right?
We got some kind of curves and gradients.
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I'm going to select all of them
on the top here...
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and basically all we do is 
we go to the Blending Mode...
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which is under 'Opacity',
and go to 'Normal'...
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and just kind of play around
with the ones that we like.
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Instantly darker, look's kind of cool.
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Don't worry about the interaction 
with this navigation, we'll fix that.
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I'm looking for these kind of joints...
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where things start overlapping,
and doing cool stuff.
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Now, it will depend on the colors 
that you're using.
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So have a work your way through...
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and just see what-- 
some cool interactions here.
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Remember that shortcut, 'Command H'?
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'Command H' just kind of 
hides all the lines...
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because it's quite hard to kind of see
how they interact with those lines.
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'Command H' just hides all the center bits.
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Usually turn back on.
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Multiply, Color Burn, well Color Burn
is kind of nice.
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Watch what we're doing.
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Now I'm just messing about,
I'm going to do some cropping.
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You can skip on to 
the next video if you like.
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I'm going to do some tidying up 
when I'm finished.
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So, clicked every single one of these.
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If you know a shortcut from
going through these...
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I know what it is in Photoshop.
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Then here, I kind of look it out
in Illustrator.
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I have to click on every single one.
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All right, nearly darkened.
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Couple of things I want to do,
is I just want to crop it in, and move--
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We'll add a Gradient to the text as well,
so do hang around.
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Disappeared already? No.
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Sorry about that.
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I'm going to grab the Rectangle Tool.
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I'm going to draw a rectangle,
that's the whole size of the thing.
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Basically his job.
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I'm going to hold 'Shift', 
grab these guys as well.
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I got all of them, 
'Command H' to turn those back on.
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'Command 7' to turn it into
a Clipping Mask.
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Now I'm going to click on it...
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and send it to the back,
behind the navigation.
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What I'll do for the navigation--
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Do I want him behind the navigation?
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 Definitely want it behind the buttons,
but maybe, not the actual Nav bar.
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What we'll do for the Nav bar is,
we'll pick a Gradient for you, buddy.
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Come on, you're going to be that one.
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Too much.
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And save it down here.
Eye Dropper Tool, what I might do is--
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so select on this guy,
Eye Dropper Tool, click on him.
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Then into my Gradients, with him selected,
Fill at the front.
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Fill him over so he's 
kind of balanced out.
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Now what you might want to do is
add Gradients to text.
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Over here, I've outlined this text...
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works just as good for
regular typed text...
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but I've outlined it because
you might not have this font.
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And I'm quite precious about this font.
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So what I'd like to do is, it's Museo...
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or Roboto; can't remember.
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Anyway, we're going to
add a Gradient to it...
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but if you add Gradient to either text...
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or like this one, kind of
outlines the text.
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Look what happens if I go to 'Fill'...
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and I go, I want you to be
that kind of same Gradient.
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It does it individually, per thing.
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An easy way to get around that,
is just to go to 'Object'...
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it's 'Command 8', 
but if you go to 'Object'...
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'Compound Path', there it is there, 'Make'.
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Make an object, 'Compound Path', 'Make'.
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Nothing really changes...
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except now, when I say,
give you a Gradient...
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it makes life a lot easier.
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Where are you? That color.
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You can see, it kind of
goes across all the text...
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rather than kind of starting
and stopping all the way through.
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It might be hard to see
because it's quite thin.
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A little this side, a little that side.
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All right, so that's going to be it
for this video, more Color Blending.
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I guess I just wanted to show you...
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the kind of things that happen
just with Blending Modes.
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So many cool things.
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All right, I'll see you in the next video.