Saving and Reusing Gradients?

[Fonce Falooda]

I'm trying to make a shape with a textured stroke around it that uses a gradient. The Stroke and Fill gradients have to match exactly, but I can't find a way to save and reuse gradients.



The way I just cheated the system is to take a snapshot of my screen when the Fill Gradient dialogue box is open, then use the eyedropper from the Stroke Gradient dialogue to match it by sampling my screengrab.

Is this how you're supposed to do it? Thanks!

[slowtiger]

This should be done with creating a style.

[Fonce Falooda]

Slowtiger- Thanks for responding. I just watched some tutorials on Styles and I think I get what they're for, but I'm still stuck on the way to copy a Fill Gradient to a Stroke Gradient. It seems like I would need to do that before I make the Style, that I would then re-use on other stuff.

Is there a way of applying a Fill Gradient Style to the Stroke of something? I'm either missing something painfully obvious, or no one else has ever wanted to do this before. I'm prepared for either verdict.

[slowtiger]

I think any style contains a fill and a stroke information, or just one of them, but you can't apply the fill style to a stroke and vice versa.

[Fonce Falooda]

Slowtiger- Okay, so it's easier than I thought to copy a gradient from Fill to Stroke. I forgot you could pop out the full color wheel selector (along with the hexidecimal Pantone color number at the bottom) by clicking the swatch next to the eye dropper. I have to do it twice for each gradient, but it's slightly better than my screengrab technique.



The real problem will come when I need to replicate a gradient (from Fill to Stroke) that has more than two colors in it, as I'll never be able to exactly match where in the gradient the third color falls. But maybe I just won't ever do a 3+ color gradient.

Thanks!