i first sampled a gradient, then attempted to select the darkest color and add it to my swatches. but every time (even with the actual color, 19/91/100/11) is keeps going to black. HELP!!!!
::heather malone
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I'm trying to change the color of some text to a sampled color. I think what the key is - is that I sampled a gradient. Still haven't figured it out.
::heather malone
Try expanding the gradient to a blend where you'll get the individual color breaks to sample. Might work. I'm using an older version of Illustrator, so we're on different pages here.
If the gradient was created in Illustrator just select it, and open up the gradient tool to grab the actual colors rather than relying on your eye dropper and a steady hand. :)
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Dirt and Rust
Make sure that your text is not in B/W mode, if so change the color scheme to RGB or CMYK depending for web or print usage, being illustrator I assume you are using it for print purposes. I dont have illustrator on this computer or I would have given you the steps.
Go into the Preferenced & one of the options is "Appearance of Black" make sure the "On Screen" is set to "Display All Blacks Accurately" and "Printing/Exporting" is set to "Output All Blacks Accurately" If it's so dark that it's almost black, Illustrator may default it to black as a swatch if the "On Screen" is set to "Display All Blacks as Rich Black"
Now I'm seeing two different situations here...
If you are trying to sample a gradient in order to change live text to the gradient - then Jhouse is right. Live text colored with a gradient will still appear as black on screen, but will print correctly. So you might be doing it right, but getting a preview that looks wrong.
The way I read it originally was you wanted to pull a specific color from a gradient to color the text - not color the text with the gradient. IOW, (for example) let's say the gradient went from 100% magenta to 100% cyan and you wanted to sample the violet color in the center created by the mix of cyan and magenta. Sampling that will pick up the entire gradient - not the violet color. That's why I said break it into a blend and pick the exact color you want.
Glad we cleared that up... or did we?
If as they say you want the voilet, it is not a correct science but, save as an eps, open it in photoshop. It will open flat then use photshop to pick the colour and read the CMYK, then use that CMYK in Illustrator. Simples. However this is not an exact science it is a quick fix.
As far as I am conserned black text is black.
This was my original point (which I also tested to make sure Adobe hadn't changed the way gradients work!) You can break a gradient into a blend by expanding it. It will save you the trouble of going to Photoshop and it's more accurate because you get the full range of color broken down so you can just pick the color you want. Obviously you'd zoom in to make it easier to get the exact color.
Those colors look a lot like 100% Magenta and 100% Cyan...
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Dirt and Rust
If you have a gradient and you want to ad a color from that gradient let's say the violet to your swatches I would use the gradient panel and the color panel.
With the gradient panel open click under the gradient preview bar, illustrator will add a new stopcolor, Move it to the tint you want, with the stopcolor still active go to the color panel, and see that you have your swatches panel open as well.
Now drag the colored square to your swatches, it is added and you can use it colorise whatever you want.
Now for the filling of live type with a gradient use the appearance panel.
Select your text with the black arrow, go to the appearance panel and add a new fill. Now you can choose a gradient that you made and it will be applied to the text.
The appearance panel only works when you select the object (textframe in this case), it won't work when you select the text with the text tool.
The appearance panel is a very powerfull panel that can be used to do a lot of things that seem impossible in Illustrator.
hope this helps