Changing the radial gradient to grey multiple times

Question

Hi All,

Newbie question here. Regarding the attached ai file, it composes a bunch of fireflies with a radial gradient to black, I guess for the intention of placing on top of a dark coloured or black background. I am looking to export this to photoshop as a transparent image to add to a grey background c7c7b7 as the colour picker code. Is there away to edit the radial gradient to grey instead of black ? so that the edges in the attached image are c7c7b7 as opposed to 000000 which they are at present?

Thanks for any and all help.

Rob

John Mensinger · Answer

Those weren't built as radial gradients; they are the result of a glow effect applied with a blend mode that is dependent on the background to work. The forum is littered with posts about this very issue; transparency-dependent effects in Illustrator. If you're taking it to Photoshop anyway, here's what I'd do:

1. Setup your new Photoshop image at the size/resolution you need, and fill it's background with that c7c7b7 gray you want, and/or whatever else you want.

2. Back in the Illustrator file, deconstruct* until you're able to select just the insect silhouettes.

* Release clipping mask(s), ungroup, etc.

3. Copy/paste the insect silhouettes from Illustrator to Photoshop.

4. In Photoshop, with the insect silhouettes positioned as desired, set the foreground color to white and use a large, soft paintbrush and a single click (on an empty layer between the background and the shapes) to paint a new glow behind each firefly.

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