To delete a point, just click the shape, and hit the backspace key or the trash icon in the gradient panel. You can add as many small circles as you like, although if you add too many you’ll lose the smooth look of your freeform gradient. Illustrator will give it a random colour, but you can change it the same way as the others. To do this, just click on anywhere within your shape to add a new circle.
You can also move the small circles around to adjust where the colour forms, and add new circles for new colours in your gradient. Alternatively, you can double click on a circle to bring up a colour modifying panel. By clicking on one of the small circles within the shape, you can go to the Swatches panel and select a new colour for each circle. I’m not happy with the colours Illustrator chose, so I’m going to modify them. Now let’s make some adjustments to our freeform gradient. Step 3: Customizing Colours + Adding New Colours
These are the points where each colour in your freeform gradient forms. You’ll notice your shape now has some small circles within it. A gradient with automatically be applied to your shape with a randomly generated set of colours. To use it, just make sure your shape is selected, then click on the freeform gradient button. You can find the freeform gradient tool in the gradients panel, just to the right of the linear and radial gradient options. You can make whatever shape you like as long as there’s a large area within the shape to apply the freeform gradient. Make any shape you like I’m going to draw a simple circle using the Ellipse Tool.
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