Comments on: Transparent Gradients in Illustrator.

By: Appel

Appel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:51:07 +0000

Very useful solution. I have another one. I select the gradient, then the ‘Transparency’ palette and ‘Multiply’ the gradient – just like in Photoshop. Save as .ai and it works fine in InDesign – just as the above opacity mask solution.

Unfortunately QuarkX is not good with .ai files! I use to drag the .ai file to Photoshop (transparent background) – save as psd-file in the size you want to use – or bigger. This works with QuarkX, but you now have a bitmapped file…

OBS! – using the ‘Multiply’ transparency solution in Illustrator will not work in QuarkX though – yet. So it is only for InDesign.

By: xmuzx

xmuzx — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:47:22 +0000

Thanks!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:01:46 +0000

“Using CS3 and getting same as James ‘target never seems to be fully transparent’. Gradient mask goes from white to black but back areas are not completly masked…? Maybe this is a CS3 thing…”

I think the problem you and James are having is your color space. If you are working on an RGB document, make sure the black in the gradient is in RGB. The same goes for the CMYK color space – make sure the black in the gradient is 100% K only. If you have it wrong you’ll always get about 91% black. Hope that helps!

By: gillesdeclercq

gillesdeclercq — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:47:46 +0000

thanks a lot for the tip

By: Hay

Hay — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:12:33 +0000

Thank you!! Now my life is complete!

By: RP

RP — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:18:25 +0000

so much thanks.
(personal tough, Adobe made clear gradients way too difficult in .ai, lol) Glad I found your link into a flash forum.

By: iPhil

iPhil — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:43:58 +0000

Is there any way to get the trasparent part to stay trasparent when putting the illustrator .eps file into Quark? I at the moment where it should be transparent it is filling in white.

Thanks though.

By: safelypinned

safelypinned — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:13:38 +0000

this is awesome!!!! googled this tutorial and found this. good job.

By: elena

elena — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:19:48 +0000

Thank you so much for this tip. I am a graphic designer and this tutorial really helps…

By: Naomi

Naomi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:23:27 +0000

Hi, I am new to all of this, I was wondering if there is any way you can create a new gradient and then save it. Thank You