Not able to choose color of my gradient in the color picker tool

 how can solve this problem 

I'm having the same problems and have followed all of the adivce here and yet the gradients refuse to be anything but black and white does anyone know about getting a refund of Adobe?

Totally Agree!!!!

STEP IT UP!!

All of these things. Also why can't I access my color themes saved in my libraries panel from Gradient Map?

Some of Adobe features lack even the slightest intuitive nature. This is one of them. Yes there are work-arounds, or ways to get it done, but the intuition is absent. For anyone to defend Adobe on this particular issue shows a real disconnect in thought.

InDesign has its process, and that is what it is until it changes, but there is nothing smart or efficient about the way InDesign forces users to engage in what is in my experience one of the MAIN design features of the entire InDesign toolbox.

The word for it is silly. InDesign gradient tool and options are silly. Now back to work.

I think the best thing to do is download and install Affinity Designer. It costs the same as one months subscription to creative cloud for a perpetual licence and has a UI the makes some kind of sense.

Affinity Designer - Professional graphic design software

I just came here to tell, that I hate Illustrator and InDesign gradient tools. It's so hard and illogical to use. Every time I use it, I have to google how to use it.
If I could just double click  the color stop to change color, it would be perfect and user friendly, but it seems that the double click sometimes works and sometimes not. I have no idea what causes this.

I have to completely agree with felipegrin. I'm sure he is not asking for specific answers about how to do the things he lists in his original post. He is drawing attention to the woeful user experience when trying to complete really simple tasks. I'm afraid saying Illustrator is powerful and thirty years old doesn't cut it. That's thirty years Adobe have had to get it right. Felipegrin's post adequately demonstrates they haven't.

Let me offer another example. To be clear I'm am highlighting a problem rather than asking for specific instructions.

Let say I have a colour I want to use in a creative clould library. I want to use it as a base colour for a gradient, maybe I'll fade up to slightly lighter at the top. Not sure yet, I'm designing something, so I want to experiment when I work. I haven't decided on what colours to use yet, you know, because I'm designing. So what's the workflow to tell Illustrator about the gradient.

The user experience.....

1. Select the object
2. Set the fill colour to gradient
3. Change the direction to vertical. (How often does anybody ever need a horizontal gradient?)
4. The gradient is black and white, grayscale.
5. Click the colour swatch on the gradient. Nothing happens
6. Double click the tiny weeney colour swatch. A dialog opens with arbitrary swatch colours in it. None is the one I want. How do I pick the colour I want? Oh, I can't.
7. So after much messing around I have to deselect my object.
8. Double click the colour in the library panel
9. Accept the dialog the pops up
10. Open the swatch panel
11. Click the tiny weeny new swatch icon
12. Select my object
13. Double click the tiny weeney swatch icon
14. Choose my newly created swatch in the modal swatch dialog. OK now after fourteen steps I have one of the colours in my gradient.
15. Now to make the second colour a subtle variation of my first chosen colour? Well now that is tricky. I have to deselect my object.
16. Select the original colour in the swatch panel to load it into the fill colour, but of course it has to be with nothing else selected so as not to mess up the work I've already done it adding the first colour to the gradient.
17. Double click the fill colour and choose my subtle colour variation in the colour mixer
18. Go back to the swatch panel and click the teeny weeny new swatch button. The tiny new swatch is loaded into an arbitrary location in the swatch panel, so you have to watch carefully. If it is similar to any other colour you might have to do this again so you can be sure when you are picking the right one in a few steps time.
19. Memorise the location of your new swatch in the swatch panel.
20. Select your object again
21. In the gradient panel double click the teeny weeny colour swatch.
22. Retrieve the location of your subtle colour in the modal swatch dialog from your human memory. Click it. Now you have your gradient, but wait, I'm not sure about that second colour. I'd like to add more saturation. What to do? You guessed it folks. Go back to step 15.

Would it be that hard for the user experience to be something like the following?

1. Select that blue box
2. Choose gradient as the fill type
3. Oh wow! One of the gradient colours is the blue it started out as. That's helpful
4. What about the second colour? Click the button for the second colour. A modal colour picker appears. Choose your color.
5. Done

I love Adobe products and use them all day every day. My work over the past twenty years has covered graphic design for print to visual effects for feature films. I've been using a host of creative software for a long time. The example above is just one of many that makes Illustrator extremely frustrating to use in comparison to almost any other creative software. Felipegrin is right. Adobe knows he's right.

Adobe are realising fantastic updates all the time across the creative cloud range. There are so many klunky user experience bottlenecks in Illustrator, that I'm sure wouldn't be so tuff to fix.

I would also ask that Adobe don't add to my frustration by replying to this message by telling me I've posted it in the wrong part of their website.

Felipegrin,

Illustrator is a complex yet amazing program. It is almost 30 years old. If you are looking for a simple program, this may not be the one for you. But if you are looking for a program that, once you have mastered it, is powerful beyond imagination, then stick with it. You can ask questions here, and volunteers will help you. Your questions indicate that you want a better understanding of the program, and you might benefit from taking a class from an Adobe Authorized Training Center with an Adobe Certififed Trainer. You will find a list on the Adobe website, and many have online options to join live classes. Those of us who are trying to help you can't rewrite the program, we can only tell you how it works! Photoshop and Illustrator were sold as separate programs until Creative Suite, and they do not work the same way, including with gradients. PS is raster, and AI is vector. Hope this explanation helps.

Best to you,

Jane

Easiest for the forum if you ask only one question per thread, but here's more on the gradient: yes, you can do that.

1. Shift click the ramp if necessary to change to CMYK.

2. Select a marker in the gradient panel. Note below that the far right marker is selected.

3. Select colors in the Color panel. Or Option click colors in the Swatches panel. Or double click the marker.

Jane Edwards