Hi everyone. We are gonna add gradients across multiple objects  and you're like, why is this even a video hard? Because you've done this, you've added a gradient to lots  of stuff and it's added lots of multiple gradients. You're like, that's not what I wanted. It's why there's this video. You wanna do this?

Bam. We've got this kind of sweet gradient going across all the  different objects and one little band that we can adjust. Let me jump in and show you how to do it. Spoiler alert. It's just a compound path. Let's do it properly.

Alright, to follow along,  open up the file called Gradient Multis Shapes. All it is is a bunch of icons here  and I want a gradient across them all. I'm gonna cut to the chase 'cause  I wanna show you all sorts of stuff. But really if you just came for selecting them all,  turn them into a compound shape or compound path, okay? Using command eight or control eight, it'll work. Okay?

And let's go to fill, let's go to the black  and white gradient and then grab your Gradient tool. Gradient tool. And then you can kind of drag across them. There you go. I'm gonna undo, undo, undo. 'cause I want to get you more skilled in, I don't know,  I wanna talk for another two minutes.

Uh, what happens is if you don't do that  and you don't turn it into a compound path,  you can't turn it into a group. You end up with this, you end up with lots of shapes. They all have their own, you know, gradients across them. You can kind of fudge it by selecting them all,  adding a gradient, grabbing the gradient tool,  and kind of select across them all that kind of works,  except now every shape has its own gradient interplay. Can you see these multiple lines? So I grab this one here and say, you're pink.

It's only gonna work for the gradient  that is applied to this heart. Okay? There is another end to that. There you go. But a lot of individual ones. So it has to be a compound path first.

And you're like, I've heard the word compound path. Where do we do that? Um, remember earlier on, uh,  we did these, generally a compound path is used when you  cut a hole in something. So I'm gonna undo that. I've got a square on top  of another square, and if I hit my command eight,  control eight on a pc, it's a compound path. So that's kind of how it's meant to be used,  but it works as a good trick for this.

So command eight and then grab the gradient tool  and I can drag across, I can click them. Once I got no gradient, let's start with a gradient. Bam. And then I can kind of drag across it. It's a little bit tricky and I'm gonna  do that thing we did at the beginning. You're allowed, allowed to go.

Okay, I'm just gonna add these colors  here and I'm gonna show you how I did it. So another kind of inspirational image  that took a screenshot off. I'm gonna double click this first one, go  to the eyedropper and go to bam. And then I'm gonna click once, just  below this in Gradient tool. You can go. Now if you wanna see how this is done,  you are gonna get the picture right.

No more to learn, but hang around if you want. And double click this one eyedropper tool. And I'm gonna go with the pink. And then along here I'm  going to, if you add one  by accident, you can just drag it off. Okay, I'm gonna click on this guy, double click them. I drop a tool.

Bam. How many more do I need? I it's just one. This one down the end here,  eyedropper, bam. There we go. And these little bits in the middle is like  how, which side?

You know, there's these two colors, these are the stops. And this is kind of the influence  of like who's got more influence, more gravity. Okay, there you go. That's the thing I was looking for. Awesome. We added a gradient across multiple shapes.

Just remember to make it a compound path. It does break. If you release that compound path,  I'm gonna release it, which is no good. Surprisingly tricky to do, uh,  gradients across multiple objects, but it comes up a lot. Alright, that's it. I'll see you in the next video.