Hi commmunity!
I have googled around and seem to find a few ideas of how to achieve (ish) what I want, but I'm trying to find the most comprehensive, best-practice way.
I have a shape similar to this below. It is going to represent a tube (part of a factory tube, to help you envision).
I want to create a very subtle gradient that give the impression of the tube being rounded, so that the outer part is slightly darker and the inner is opaque. The reason I want the centre breadth of the tube to be opaque is because I am going to have text running through the centre at points, so I want the gradient to reveal that.
What is the best way to do this?
Evidently, a gradient across the object doesn't work.
The closest I can find is using a stroke, turning a stroke into outlines, then using the gradient across the stroke and setting the centre to opaque, and the two edges to solid colour:
I'm not then able to manipulate this into the tube curvy shape, however. I've read about gradient masks but this seems complicated...but maybe that is something I could use?
I hope this makes sense, thank you for your time.
Best,
Holly
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Hi, one option: you can use opacity mask
Make a gradient an put over the path and then make a opacity mask
Maybe will work for you
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Hi thanks for this!
I'm afraid I'm still a little confused at step two and how you applied the gradient to the path (before making the opacity mask) ?
What were the steps you did to get the gradient to run along the path like this?
Also set gradient direction along stroke.
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