[Illustrator 27.9] Changing the Fill Color of All Objects Becomes Impossible After Using the Gradient Tool
After I change the color of a gradient stop several times, changing the fill color of virtually all objects becomes impossible until I restart Illustrator.
How to reproduce the bug:
1) Create any object with a gradient fill.
2) Keep changing the colors of the stops.
3) Once changing the colors becomes impossible, create a new object in either the same or a new document and try to set its fill color.
Jakub Trybowski
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Recording a video is going to be tricky, as the problems seems to occur at random.
Here's what I usually do before the problem occurs:
1) I click on an object.
2) I press "G".
3) I click on a stop and change it's color using the "Color" tab.
Somtimes changing the fill color becomes impossible after i do the above just a few times.
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No luck :( even with the file at my hands, I fail to make it break like you say it does for you.
Can you please try to record it on video? make sure that UI you use for this is in frame. -
Thank you very much.
Usually, it happens after I modify the color of a stop only a few times but no more than 10-20 times.
I change the fill color using the "Color" tab in the right panel. However, other color panels also don't work.
I attached an example affected file.
Interestingly, after changing the fill color of any object to black or white I temporarily regain the ability to edit all fill colors. Unfortunately, it lasts only until I recolor a gradient stop.
My computer is a Vivobook Pro with a Radeon iGPU (5900HX) and a 3050 Ti dGPU. The laptop runs a 100% up-to-date Win11 Pro.
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Jakub, I made roughly 300 changes for various color stops rapidly, and it still works for me...
There must be something else to it. How exactly do you change the color of stops? How many times it usually takes for you to make it break? -
1) After I change the colors of the stops a few times, the colors become stuck and I can't change them until I restart Illustrator.
To make things worse, if I create a new document without restarting the app, I can't set the fill color of any object.
To reproduce the problem:
1) Create a gradient with a transparent stop over a solid object.
2) Change the colors of the stops several times, after which the colors should become stuck.
3) Once you can no longer change the colors, create a new document and create an object.. You should be unable to set its fill color.
2) You're right. The gradient tool in Affinity Designer works the exact same way. When I change the color of the transparent stop to 100% cyan, I get the same result.
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Jakub, please try to log one problem per UserVoice entry, don’t make lists.
UV hardly allows to split messages, and tracking clumped problems is hard for both the team and the users.1. Can you provide steps to reproduce it? Share a video of how 'further modifications become impossible'?
2. Actually Illustrator is correct here, as far as I understand the description. Take a look at the images attached — is this what you had when you made you picture? This is an equivalent of having a non-transparent gradient with a standard black-white gradient mask, as the second image shows. That means the center of the object is a mix of brown-cyan with 50% transparency. That’s why you see a cyan tint.
The color of the fully transparent stop matters, because this color defines the gradient. That’s how gradients and transparency work. If you don’t want the cyan tint — don’t use cyan in the stop. Use the same brown.
Sure, it’s not convenient to change BOTH stops when you need to change the color of the shadow... Ai doesn’t allow selecting several stops (like Gradient Forge plugin can)... But you can workaround it — use the mask for a flat-filled shape instead, or use Recolor to change the color of both stops.
...or I just don’t get the problem and talk gibberish :) Then please explain further.
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There are two bugs in the gradient tool, one serious and one annoying:
1) After changing/adjusting the colors of the stops several times, further modifications become impossible until I restart Illustrator. If I only create a new document - without fully restarting the app - I can't set the fill color of any object.
2) When a gradient is overlayed over another object to create a shadow effect and one stop is set to be 100% transparent, there's a very visible color tint instead of a full tranparency. To illustrate this problem, I created a gradient with the color of the fully transparent stop set to 100% cyan, which results in a visibly tinted gradient. If the gradient tool worked as it should, there would be no tint regardless of the color of the transparent stop.
