Fading Away

[GAC05]

Doug it looks alot like Xara's edge feathering tool.
It a slider that will feather the edge of closed paths. It is vector based & dynamic so that it will scale with the drawing and you can adjust it at any time. It also does not add additional paths for the effect.
Maybe CS has a similar tool now (I don't own it so I can't check).
In X3 you could do a similar effect by using the contour tool and setting the fill and line type to white with the color blend set to linear, but it would add paths just like Fred's blending solution.

pic shows the effect in xara

wayne k
guam usa

 

[2NinerNiner2]

I ran into a situation just the other day that required this type of fade and I achieved a reasonable result with the mesh fill tool in X3. Here is a quick version; I added more nodes to the one I used, but it was quite easy to do.

 

[iSign]

cool tricks guys. Fred, I just saw you post, & I will email you the file.

 

[Fred Weiss]

The effect was achieved with Feathering the filled vector at a setting of a radius of 18.5 pixels in Adobe Illustrator.

 

[iSign]

thanks for figuring that out Fred.
I'll be exploring that feature some more.