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To modify one of the colors, select the triangle below the color on the bar.
To add a color stop to the gradient bar:
1 Click anywhere along the bottom of the gradient bar.
2 Use the Eyedropper or color swatch to select the color for the color stop.
To move a color stop on the gradient bar:
Drag a color stop left or right along the bar.
To copy a color stop:
Hold Command (macOS) or Ctrl (Windows) while you drag a color stop.
To delete a color stop:
Drag the color stop up past the gradient bar.
Image Source
(Image Mode only) The Image Source menu includes three options for acquiring the image used
to fill the text.
 Tool: Displays a Color image text field where you can add a tool from the node tree as
the fill for text.
 Clip: Provides a Browse button to select a media file from your hard drive as
the fill for text.
 Brush: Displays a Color Brush menu where you can select one of Fusion’s paint brush
bitmaps as the fill for text.
Color Image/Color Brush
(Image Mode only) The Color Image text box and Color Brush menu are used to select the tool
or paint brush that will fill the text. In the Color Image text box, enter the name of the node in
the node tree that will provide the image. You can type the name in with the keyboard, drag the
node from the node tree into the text box, or right-click and select Connect To from the
contextual menu to select the image to be used. For the Color Brush, select the Brush
from the menu.
Image Sampling
(Image Mode only) This menu is used to select the sampling type for shading rendering and
transformations. The default of Pixel shading is sufficient for 90% of tasks. To reduce detectable
aliasing in the text, set the sampling type to Area. This is slower but may produce better-quality
results. A setting of None will render faster, but with no additional sampling applied so the
quality will be lower.
Image Edges
(Image Mode only) This menu is used to choose how transformations applied to image shading
elements are handled when they wrap off the text’s edges.
Shading Mapping
(Image Mode only) This menu is used to select whether the entire image is stretched to fill the
text or scaled to fit, maintaining the aspect ratio but cropping part of the image as needed.
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