- [Instructor] Following on from the discussion
of gradients, a gloss effect is a way
to freshen up a logo and add dimension.
I'm going to start with my red circle,
and I'll be copying this numerous times.
So first of all, command or control + C to copy,
and then command or control + B to paste that copy in back.
I'll scale up the copy from its center point,
option or alt, and the shift key.
And then I'm going to apply a gradient to that.
Come to the swatches panel, I have it on my swatches panel
already, it's called chrome.
This comes from the gradients group, metals.
Now with that second circle selected,
I'll copy it once again, command or control + C
and paste it in back once again,
and then scale up that copy that is at the back.
I now need to come to my gradients panel,
which is not apparently open,
so let me just open that from the window menu
and change the direction of the gradient
in the back-most circle.
Let's now return to the original red circle.
I'll copy it once again, this time,
I'll paste the copy in front, command or control + F.
And this time, I will make it smaller.
Now what I want to do is segment this circle.
So I'm going to start out with my line tool
and draw a straight line across the logo, like that,
then come to the curvature tool,
to add some curvature to that line.
I will copy this, because I'll be needing another copy of it
in just a moment, so command or control + C
to copy that curved line to the clipboard.
Now extend the selection to the smallest red circle,
and come to the pathfinder panel, and choose divide.
So that will have segmented this into two pieces.
I need to delete the bottom portion.
I can do that with my direct selection tool.
First of all, click away from it to deselect.
Click back on it to select it, and delete.
Select the remaining portion,
and I will apply a gradient to this.
The gradient that I want to use is
a white to transparent gradient.
Well, it's white to black
but the black fades out to 0% opacity.
I'll come and get my gradient tool
and determine the angle of that gradient.
Then I'll come to my transparency panel
and set the blend mode of that to screen.
You'll remember that I have another version
of that curved line on the clipboard.
Now's the time for me to paste that in front
and to extend my selection, by holding down the shift key,
to the two chrome circles.
Then return to my pathfinder options and divide.
That's going to make a group of those elements
and bring that group to the front.
With my direct selection tool, I want to be able to select
the individual segments of that group.
So clicking first in the top segment of the outer circle,
I'll reverse the direction of the gradient
and then the bottom section of the inner circle,
and reverse the direction of that gradient too.
I'll now switch back to my selection tool,
select the whole group,
and we will send this to the back.
To finish, I'll select my original red circle
and come and apply an inner glow to it.
I'm going to use black with a blend mode of multiply.
And then I will select my type.
Back to my stylize effect, and add a small drop shadow.
So try this yourself, try adding a gloss effect
to a logo that has flat color,
to see if you can take that logo in a different direction.