Just a question regarding Illustrator and Path Blends

[trevorsaint]

If you draw using the pen tool two paths, and convert these paths to guides, you are able to blend colours from one path to the other, which is great when using gradients, as photoshop does not have this benefit, but rather just linear or radial.

HOWEVER

I am having a few slight issues with it. Looking at the gradient where the two points closest all looks well until the points are seperated, thats when the gradient is then split into lines and it looks ver poor.

Have a look at the attached sample.

Can this be resolved, and if so how do you get a gradient to follow paths in a smooth output?

[iLikePie]

perhaps you could look at the stroke width - a calligraphic stroke taht's thicker at this end so it fills in the gap well.

what you've done isn't really how i imagined people doing this kind of gradient, seems a bit fiddly and inefficient to me. but i hadn't thought about it much.

gradient mesh is probably a good thing to look into.

[trevorsaint]

A gradient mesh is good yes but not for the same effect, if i wanted a perfect gradient following round a path a gradient mesh would not do it. This method would.

Thanks for your suggestino about stroke thickness, indeed this actually makes the gradient smooth, must have had the stroke far to think for it to take a like.

Anyway it looks ok now :)

Cheers