Editing gradients
The colors in the gradient are edited by dragging the control points. You can use either the Red/Green/Blue view or the Hue/Saturation/Luminance view. They both edit the same control points, but with different color models. You can resize the gradient editor for more accurate positioning of the control points.
Click a control point to select it. Hold down Shift or Ctrl and click to select multiple control points. Click on the curve background to deselect all control points. To draw a rectangle around control points to select them, click on the curve background and drag.
Drag a control point to change its color and position. To change only the position or only the color, hold down Shift while dragging. In the Controls view, you can manually enter the color and position of the control point for fine-tuning.
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Click Insert on the Edit menu, and then click somewhere in the gradient editor to insert a new control point there. You can also hold down Ctrl and click on the curve background where you want to insert a new control point. | |
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Click Delete on the Edit menu to delete the selected control point. You can also hold down Ctrl and click on the selected control point, if no other control points are also selected. | |
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Right-click in the gradient editor and click Select Color to open a dialog box to change the color of the selected control point. This is an alternative to dragging the control point itself. | |
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Right-click in the gradient editor and click Randomize Color to set the color of the selected control point to a random value. | |
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Right-click in the gradient editor and click Eyedropper to pick the color of the selected control point from any open gradient editor or fractal window. Click Eyedropper again to cancel. | |
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Click Smooth Curves on the Gradient menu to toggle between linear interpolation and smooth interpolation for the curves. This affects how the gradient is colored between control points. | |
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Click Undo on the Edit menu to undo the changes you have made. The history list of the gradient is independent from the fractal history list, but it is reset when undoing changes to the fractal. | |
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| Use the Copy and Paste commands on the Edit menu to copy the gradient to the Clipboard and paste the gradient on the Clipboard into the editor, replacing the current gradient. This enables you to copy gradients to other layers, other fractal windows, and to and from stand-alone gradient editors. |
Next: Transparent gradients
See Also
Tutorial: Learning basic skills
Tutorial: Working with layers
Keyboard shortcuts for gradient editors
Gradients
Animating gradients