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How To Make Mesh Gradient In Figma
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May 21, 2024
Learn how to make a mesh gradient in Figma with this detailed tutorial. This video walks you through the process step-by-step, from selecting colors and creating gradients to manipulating nodes for a seamless mesh effect. Ideal for designers of all skill levels, you'll gain valuable tips and techniques to enhance your projects with visually striking and dynamic mesh gradients.
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How to make a mesh gradient in Figma
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Hey guys, welcome back to the YouTube channel. Today we will be going over how you can quickly create a mesh gradient using Figma
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Because mesh gradient have become pretty much a standard background or a standard in
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illustration nowadays and any kind of vector illustration or backgrounding that you do
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Having a gradient is pretty much the norm now and they look very nice, they're very simplistic
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and they are relatively easy to create. So this is a beginner friendly tutorial if you are not used to working with Figma don't
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worry this is going to be very simplified and you can easily follow step by step
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So without wasting any more time let's get into it. Now I have logged on to my Figma account and I will simply click on
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new design file on the top left over here. Once I have opened up a new design file I can name it on the top
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So I'm just naming this as a mesh gradient and then after that I'm going to create my frame
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So whenever you're working in Figma the first thing you want to do is click on the top left
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over here and you can see your frame and you're just going to create a frame
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You can choose whatever frame size you want you know if you're doing this for iPhone backgrounds
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whatever you want to build. When you click on frame you actually get multiple different uh you know frames that you can
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work with. So desktop frames let's say I want to build a background for my MacBook Air I can click
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on that and it's going to give me the exact dimensions for a MacBook Air
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So after I have created my frame this is the first step
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You're going to start creating shapes that you want to base your gradient on because
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gradients don't have to be simple one colored gradients they can be of multiple different
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items meshed in together and that is what I mean when I refer to a mesh gradient
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So if I create a rectangle over here and I create a circular shape over here like so
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I'm going to place this place this over here then I can even go into the line tool and
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take the pen over here I'm just going to use the pen tool or the pencil tool
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Now I'm just building a very random shape like so and I'm just joining it like this
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and once I have my shape ready once I've created this I'm just going to click on done
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and I can actually fill this out so if I click on this I can see on the right side over here
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I have pass through normal the layer saturation the pen stroke and then I can click on fill
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and I can fill it to my color of choosing then I can even you know remove any of this
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or delete this however you want to build your little structure. I'm going to change it up a little because I don't like this shape
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I'm just going to go on ahead and cut it out for now so we're going to move it like so
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even resize it a little like so and then I'm just going to fill it in and I'm just going to make it
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like a darker shade of gray so it's easier for me to denote everything and your frame actually
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allows you to cut through you know the sections you don't want to appear so in this way I'm just
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going to build another little shape like so after that I'm going to fill it out just with a
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shade of gray just so I'm easily able to denote everything and for now I'm just going to set these
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out I'm just going to place everything like so just to make it easier for me to later on denote
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everything I just like to go with different colors of gray because later on you're going
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to change the colors anyway to you know the actual gradient that you want to pursue now I'm just going
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to add a couple of more shapes just to fill out you know my background how I want it to appear
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so I'm just going to go into the eclipse add one over the top like so and then we're going to add
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a couple of more I've just duplicated this I'm going to resize it like so now once I have set
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up my design so once you know your design has been completed you're certain with the way that
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it is going to appear you're just going to move on to your second step and the second step is actually
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to begin coloring it so you can select any of your items and begin adding the colors that you want
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you're going to choose your color scheme so let's say I want to do a color scheme that is green and
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pink so I'm just going to select you know the colors that I want I will just select each individual
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item and you know add the colors you can do this randomly or you can build your color scheme in
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accordance to you know pre-existing colors that you might have so I'm just going to build my color
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scheme I'm doing a very basic radiant so now I've just added all my shapes and I've colored all of
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my shapes to you know the color scheme that I want to follow it's greens and pinks and now that I have
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completed that I want to begin creating my mesh blur so to do that all I have to do is I'm going
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to select all of these items like so you are just going to select all of your items once you have
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done that you can see on the right side of your screen you're going to scroll down once you scroll
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down you find your effect in your effect you see drop shadow but you're going to select that and
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click on layer blur then you're going to adjust the value so I'm going to increase the value
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so this is a little too much and I'm going to set it to 20 and I just uh you know changed up the
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opacity as well so you guys can choose however you want to build it but uh what I'm going to do
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is I'm just going to go on ahead and change back our original opacity as well so just changing up
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the values what I'm going to do is this time I'm going to actually take my frame and I'm just going
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to do a command z just to show you guys once more so this time instead of selecting my entire frame
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from here I'm going to select all the elements within the frame so you can select all these
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elements without you know selecting everything else so we have our little frame and we can just
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select the entire frame like so if you want to do that if you want you know blurred edges you can
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totally choose that or you can just choose uh all of the individual items by clicking on shift and
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then selecting each individual one so let's say we have all of these and after that you're just
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going to scroll down click on layer blur and you're going to add the value of your blur and just like
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that you have your mesh gradient obviously the higher the value the better the blur looks if you
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add a hundred value it usually looks pretty amazing as well and then you have your cut through so you
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have your layout how you want everything to be laid out and you can totally adjust that however
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you want but moving on the next thing you have to do is to clip content so we want to clip content
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outside of frame that is what I want to do then you have your auto layout however you want your
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item to be layout and then you have your grid as well if you want a grid if that is up to you now
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after that what I actually recommend is creating more of a depth within your item so once you have
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your mesh blur ready you want to create more depth and depth can be created in a very simple
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manner simply by creating a simple new element so you can go into your little eclipse and let's say
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I want to bring like a little bit of a shine in the screen so in this section I can create a little
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eclipse and I can fill it out with a white color like so and then this just looks like gives a
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shine it gives texture and it's very essential to add something with shine and texture just to make
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it look a little better if you select all of your items and scroll down you have your effect you can
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add another effect and you can click on in a shadow and you can also add some more shadows
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like so and you can choose how you want the effect color to appear so you have you know a bordered
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effect if you want to add those then you also have some other basic effects like your background
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blurs and drop shadows as well that's totally up to you and after that you can actually go ahead
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and see your prototype and you can you know build flows and interactions but once you have everything
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ready you're just going to you know select all of your items you're good with it you're just
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going to go ahead and you can export it now so to export it all you have to do is go into your
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design click on export and export this as a png you also have a preview that you get of how the
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export will look and you can even click on share over here to share a basic link that other people
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can view as well I hope you guys found this video helpful make sure to leave a like and subscribe
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