This session (noon Pacific on Friday) with illustrator Russell Viers might be up your alley. The point I’ve bolded sounds particularly interesting:
- Adding light perception and depth with a basic gradient
- Bringing your art alive with Gradient Mesh
- The value of Gradient Swatches
- A nifty hidden feature in CS5 that lets you finally add a gradient to live text
- Understanding that crazy Gradient Tool
- How the Gradient Panel can help
- Non-uniform gradients with Gradient Mesh
is this being recorded or web-cast for later viewing? i’ve always been flummoxed w/ the gradient mesh tool. i get hard to edit vector handles.