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.

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:

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

To change the start or end colors, see Changing the colors in fills.

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.

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.)

The Selector Tool can also display the Fill arrow. See Enabling fill handles.

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

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Related Topics

Changing multi-stage fills

Fill Tool