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Participant
January 15, 2025
Question

Is there a way to automatically sample color for gradient meshes from underlying image?

  • January 15, 2025
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Currently I tried to create gradient meshes from an underlying image, what I do now is first create the shape then sample colors for each vertex one by one using an eyedropper. When you directly create a gradient mesh from an image, the colors are automatically sampled.

 

Is there a way to do similar thing such that the colors of all the vertices can be directly sampled at the same positions from the underlying image?

3 replies

Participant
August 27, 2025

There is a plugin called “色彩映射(Color Mapping)”, but it’s only available for the Traditional Chinese version: 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjm_5gI_c4

Participant
March 10, 2025

I think this only works if you want the whole image as a gradient mesh. If you cut the object out, even using a mask, illustrator will still sample from the whole image but not at specific places.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 15, 2025

There used to be with the plugin Mesh Tormentor. But the plugin can no longer be downloaded.