• Adobe Illustrator

  Creating a Continuous Gradient of a Group of Outlined Text

  Posted by Kyrsten Sanderson on April 15, 2009 at 9:50 pm

  Maybe someone can help me with this one…
  I have a group of outlined objects that I want to apply a continuous gradient to. When I select all the objects and apply the gradient it applies the gradient to every object instead of treating the object as a group.
  How do I apply a continuous gradient to a set of separate objects?

  I would appreciate any advice.
  Thank you!

  Thie Thomsen replied 17 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Adolf Witzeling

  April 16, 2009 at 12:23 pm

  Hi,
  select all the outlined objects, then go to OBJECT…COMPOUND PATH…MAKE. Then apply your gradient.
  Hope that helps,
  cheers,
  Adi
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  Thie Thomsen

  April 16, 2009 at 2:30 pm

  Select the objects you would like to apply the gradient to, select the gradient in your swatches and use the Gradient tool (hotkey : g) to draw the gradient over all on the selected objects.

  The compound path way (as offered by Adolf) also works, but this method is a bit less destructive.

  —
  I can see your spot colours…

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