User`s guide

Creating Media
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You can also apply colors from the Style Palette. See “Applying Color, Natural, Gradient or
Extrusion Styles” on page 461.
If you want to switch to a grayscale image, click the color ramp before you select the
eyedropper.
Creating Gradients
A gradient is a graduated blending of two or more colors. You can create, edit, and animate
gradients. You can alter the color and transparency levels as well as the shape and direction
of the gradient.
Gradients can be used as background or mapped to text. Since gradients include an Alpha
parameter, you can use gradients as input for a number of filters that use custom gradient
tracks. For example, some displacement filters can use gradients to determine the amount of
displacement each pixel undergoes. Gradients can also be used as PixelChooser tracks in
many filters.
There are six types of gradients:
• Linear—see “Creating a Linear Gradient” on page 104
• Radial—see “Creating a Radial Gradient” on page 104
• Contour—see “Creating a Contour Gradient” on page 105
• Bevel—see “Creating a Bevel Gradient” on page 106
•Edge—see “Creating an Edge Gradient” on page 107
Use the eyedropper to choose a
color from the screen
Enter RGB values into the text
fields.
Use the color chip to pick a color
Color ramp Info box