Gradient VS Pattern Brush

[Melvyn Swingler]

Hi there!

I've been trying to use gradients to make pattern brushes and in order to have accurate colour shading on curved objects.

However, without rasterizing, then image tracing a gradient, you simply cannot use an object as any type of brush as long as it has a gradient.

Does anybody in this community of adobe gurus know how to magic this bummer away?

Many thanks!

[Ton Frederiks]

You could choose Object > Expand and select a number of objects for the gradient.

[Muqqarib Hassan · Accepted solution]

Hi, First create an object whatever you want it to be. Then create a gradient on it by selecting the object after that go to brush tool panel and add new brush as a pattern brush .

[Elisa_Koizumi2912]

like the first question:  this is when I also get an error.  it seems pattern brush does not like gradients.

[Monika Gause]

Scatter brushes and art brushes don't like gradients either. Make a blend instead.

[Elisa_Koizumi2912]

wow!!! that worked so well, and so seamlessly.  i was going nuts turning the gradient into a raster image, and then trimming it and adjusting the bounding box, etc, etc....

thank you!! you just saved me a ton of work, and unecessary detail.

[Monika Gause]

I'm glad you could solve it!

[Jacob Bugge]

HuwanMind,

How about a Blend?

[Ton Frederiks]

A Blend would be another way, Jacob.

The blend will be expanded when you make it a brush, like an expanded gradient.

[Jacob Bugge]

Indeed, Ton.

I believe I (mis)read two questions into the OP, the second being a non brush way of creating customized colour transition resembling gradients on general/curved objects, based on "and in order to have accurate colour shading on curved objects", the and being the crucial word.

I may have been rash, after struggling for five hours to get the internet connexion to work again within office hours, after some unexpected and wrecking changes made by the provider.