Hi there. This video we'll look at
creating a gradient like this one here in the background.
Let's go and make it in our document.
I'm on my Page 1.
Some pages pane on double click Page 1.
I'm going to zoom out a little bit.
I'm going to turn W key off.
I'll click it so I can see all of my working.
Why? Because I need this to go over entire bleed.
I'm going to grab my rectangle tool
and don't worry about what color or fill it has at the moment,
just drag a box that covers everything including our blade
and will amend the fill just make sure your stroke is set to none.
Okay? Even in if I had a stroke and we cut off in the bins and no big drama them.
What we want do is we're going to go
to the reason we don't worry about filling it with a color.
Okay. If I fill it with a color,
it's just going to be re-replaced by all gradient in a second, okay.
To open up gradients, go to "Window",
go down to "Color",
and go to "Gradient" with your black arrow, okay?
the selection tool here make sure this box is selected.
You might have to grab the outside of it, okay.
The edge of it if it has no fill and we're going to select "Type",
I'm going to go to linear.
Now we're going to talk about linear all the way through this tutorial,
but you could switch it to radio and everything applies the same.
Linear by default, you give him black and white.
We're going to do it once with
freehand colors and then we'll do without corporate colors.
This little white house down in here,
this little box, if I clicking on it,
I'm going to switch my colors so you need to be able to see window color panel,
and in here, you could just pick colors from this.
If there are no colors in here,
you can click on this little flat menu and because
we're going to be working in RGB for most of our document,
we switching it to that,
then you sure to pick a color.
Pick a color, do the same for the other ends, okay,
so pick the black and this one's
defaulted to swap black slider which is no cool got to RGB,
pick another color and that my friends is horrific.
Okay. So green to pink gradients is bang,
I think there are legal in most countries,
definitely here in Ireland.
To change the direction of this,
there's a whole tool for it's called the gradients watch tool.
Click on this and all you do is click "Hold" and drag, drag, drag, drag.
You can play around with the angle.
You can manually type it in and see the angles here.
If I wanted to be 90 degrees okay,
I can have it straight up and down.
Zeros going to do left to right.
Okay, so you can kind of watch this.
I can make a really small line as well,
make it kind of like just a little bend,
will get an eighties right here look at that.
I feel like a Jane Fonda exercise video,
not that I ever watched one but that's why I feel like would happen,
these colors would combine in a gradient.
Anyway. If you want to use corporate colors,
I want mine to go straight up and down,
So I'm going to do 90 degrees,
or I can click and drag across this,
okay, and to get it going straight up and down.
What I'm going to do, it's a little weird,
I need to see this gradient panel,
okay, but I also need to see my swatches panel.
So what I need to do is find my swatch,
I do I have them all applied here.
Some of them are over here.
The problem with CC libraries at the moment is,
you can't drag from the CC Libraries panel into the gradient panel.
What I'm going to do is select all of these, okay?
Actually I might undo to keep my gradient back.
Click over in the background, so nothing selected.
I'm going to make sure all of these are added.
So I'm going to right-click them and say add the swatches.
Now they're all part of this down the bottom here and this is the stuff that I want.
So grab my black arrow, click on this guy,
and with this house here, the first one,
I'm going to pick my mid green,
click drag and drag, drag it,
you've got to be really careful.
Watch this. I've got to kind of,
can you see some black there?
Means I'm replacing that one.
If you get it kind of close but not quite,
watch this scene up kind of like close as there and you end up with a like this,
all one little mix there, okay,
if you doing that with this and there's two of them,
you can just click "Hold" and drag the one you don't want off.
Just kind of drag it down to no-man's land.
So there's green to start with.
I'm going to grow my dark green to replace this one.
Okay? That is my beautiful gradient.
This is a why way around?
Yes, I've got in my example.
Then my friends is how to make gradients.
If you're following along with this tutorial series,
we're going to add a few extra little pods,
we'll add this imaged on the side here and this logo and this text.
The first thing we're going to bring in is this text.
So let's go to the type tool actually,
I'm not going to bring it in, I'm actually just going to type it out.
Whenever I'm working with the big colored background like this,
you can see my type tool to wants to turn this box into a tight box.
What I'm going to do, remember, type tool on this side,
type it out, I'm lazy,
I'm going to copy and paste it from here.
You're going to have to type out,
Green at Heart Annual Report, and style it.
Okay, it's up to you how you style it. That's how I have done mine.
The big thing with my type is that I've used the same font,
but I've used a bold vision in this one here is the light vision of Roboto Slab.
I've made this font little smaller up just so that they both line up either the side.
Doesn't look good? It's okay.
Next thing I'm going to do is bring in my image.
So I'm going to have nothing selected.
Go to file, place,
and then he is going to be called Green Logo4, okay?
Now this keeps appearing,
we not going to do anything for these changes.
I'm going to cancel, I'm going to turn that off.
It's a bit of a pain whenever you turn on the show input options.
So far I'll place this down here,
was awesome when we're bringing through tics,
but now it's a pain for images.
There's nothing we want to change.
Click and drag it out how big is it going to be.
It's kind of sit down here,
like this document here, maybe a bit big.
Come on shift, drag it down, but smaller, awesome.
Just in my image,
okay? Is file place.
You got nothing selected.
I'm going to bring in my image where is it?
It's this one. Not him.
Tabletop that's up. I'm going to click and drag it.
Might have to actually zoom out a little bit,
it's hard to work with full-size images,
when you're very close, I'm going to make mine very very big
and I'm going to align mine up, something like this.
I'm going to make sure it lines up there and make sure it
lines up the bottom already and I'm going to drag this side across.
How far was it going to be across?
Yeah, that far.
I'm sure it should be like a third, but I'm just going to wing it.
Hit "W". Yeah it looks all right.
One of the big things that's happened is that underneath here is my image,
because he was placed in the newest,
he's at the topest.
Okay. What we need to do is play without a range.
I want to push him backwards.
So I'm going to right-click him and go to arrange and we're going to go and see.
I don't want to send it back to the back because it'll go behind that gradient box.
So same back would,
so it goes behind the last thing.
Which was our image.
So I'm going to put them roughly in the middle and that is arranging.
What we're going to do in the next video is we're going to look at
doing layers because arranging is fine,
but sometimes it's just a pain to have a background image on
every layer you just want to kind of like put it in its own layer and lock it.
So we'll look at layers in the next video.