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December 20, 2022
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Why is the gradient tool not the same as Photoshop??

  • December 20, 2022
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Adobe...  do you go out of your way to make Illustrator so dang DIFFERENT than Photshop???  The gradient tool.. is totally easy in Photoshop, but in Illustrator good lord I swear you intentionally make it different than Photoshop.  You couldn't make it the same the way you just SET the gradient colors??  You just had to go out of your way to make it different and not intuitive??  Just couldn't do it the same could you?  But the pprocess on how I buy each product, oh that seems to be standardized.  When I open my car doors they are the SAME kind of handle.  There's not a different kind of handle for the driver side than passenger.  I honestly think you have staff meetings where your programers start off saying "Ok guys how can we make our products the most difficult to use for customers??"   Would love to hear your reason for why these two common functions are so vastly different.

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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December 20, 2022

OK, so this is a upublic forum and 95% of participants are not even staff. Please tell us what exactly you are having difficulties with and then we might be able to point you to a solution. When I last touched Photoshop's gradients, they were clumsy to use and you couldn't even change them after having created one (thankfully that has changed now, so obviously Photoshop learnt something from Illustrator)

 

If you want to suggest a feature, please go to https://illustrator.uservoice.com

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TJ27642281l65jAuthor
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December 20, 2022

I hear you on the public forum part and I appreciate you trying to help if you're just volunteering (I do), but you gotta understand if Adobe is going to make this stuff like this they're going to hear it from customers like me any which way when they do.  I'm having difficulty with the tools in Illustrator being so vastly different than Photoshop and it's frustrating.  I was trying to change the gradient colors in Illustrator.  Just setting the two colors that make up a gradient.  It's super easy in Photoshop, but in Illustrator..good lord.  My issue is why is common functionality like that different at all?  You have to agree it's kind of ridiculous after all these years the two are branded as the same "Adobe" brand but might as well be two completely different companies.  And I just learned Illustrator doesn't have a History button like Photoshop does.  Frustrating.

Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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December 20, 2022

There is a History panel in Illustrator.

 

Illustrator is an object based vector editing software, which by design is very different than pixel based editing. Maybe you want to go into the details of specifically what does not work for you when editing your gradient's colors.

Because the gradient editing on this helpx page looks pretty much the same as in Illustrator: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/gradients.html 

 

And if you want to learn how to do it in Illustrator, just look here: https://helpx.adobe.com//illustrator/using/gradients.html

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