Creating multi-stage fills

Applies to Linear, Circular, Elliptical, Conical and Diamond fills. Multi-stage fills let you have several different colors in your fill. So, a fill could run red-green-red yellow; you have full control over the colors used and where the colors change.

image\FTMULTI.gif

image\PRCARROW.gif To create a multi-stage fill

See Applying fills for details of creating a suitable fill.

1. Select the object (see Selecting objects).

2. Choose the Fill Tool - this displays the Fill arrow.

3. Drag-and-drop colors from the Color Line or Color Gallery onto the Fill arrow (see Notes.) This creates new color handles.

Notes:

image\BULLET.gif Conical fills have a semicircular Fill arrow. Other fill types have straight Fill arrows. Always drag-and-drop colors onto the arrow.

image\BULLET.gif To change the start or end colors, see Changing the colors in fills.

image\BULLET.gif You can also double-click on the Fill arrow to create a new color handle. then either select a color in the Color Line, Color Gallery or Color Editor.

image\BULLET.gif Elliptical and Diamond fills have a pair of Fill arrows. You can apply colors to only one of these arrows. (The arrow that was horizontal when you created the fill - this is the "primary" arrow.)

image\BULLET.gif The Selector Tool can also display the Fill arrow. See Enabling fill handles.

image\BULLET.gif You can also create multicolored fills by using rainbow and alt-rainbow effects from the Fill Tool Infobar.

Movies (not working in this version)

Using linear, circular, elliptical and conical fills

Changing multi-stage fills

Fill Tool