I’ll admit, it’s been a while since I used Illustrator. I used to use it exclusively many years back, but I moved over to Fireworks for my Flash work and I never looked back. With CS3 coming soon and its better integration with Flash, I figured I’d dust off Illustrator. I think the second thing I tried to do was create a gradient that went from 100% opacity to 0%.. this is something I have been doing since I started with Fireworks. I can’t believe Illustrator doesn’t have this. I have to create an opacity mask? Crazy.

Someone needs to create a plugin for this…if they haven’t already.