On 1/30/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
On 1/29/07, jmak <jozmak@...155...> wrote:
Illustrator didn't put that much emphasis on grads because it has the mesh tool which is a more sophisticated way of creating complex grad and 3d effects. I guess.
Even if we ignore the quite different uses of these two tools, I'd just like to point out that gradient meshes didn't appear in Illustrator until version 8 (where they were copied from Corel Draw). So Adobe had plenty of time to "put emphasis on grads" before that - yet they didn't.
Regarding the layer issue, I see another problem, that is the confusion of priorities. The secondary layer palette definitely a low priority item comparing to the fill-stroke swatches. And that doesn't seem right that a low priority item interferes with a high priority item.