User Guide

110 Corel Painter User Guide
2 Click the palette menu arrow and choose Edit Gradient.
3 Disable the Linear check box.
All ramps within the gradient are now blended nonlinearly, with smooth curves.
When using nonlinear ramps, use the Color Spread slider to control the color
smoothness at each color control point.
Changing Gradient Color Hue
Color hue is represented in the Edit Gradient dialog box by boxes located at the
midpoints between the adjacent color control points. They allow you to change the
hue of the blend within that segment.
To change the color hue
1 Choose Window menu > Library Palettes > Show Gradients to display the
Gradients palette.
2 Click the palette menu arrow, and choose Edit Gradient.
3 In the Edit Gradient dialog box, click a square box above the color ramp bar.
4 Select an option from the Color Hue pop-up menu:
• RGB blends directly between the red, green, and blue components of the two
colors.
• Hue Clockwise and Hue Counterclockwise blend between the endpoint colors
by rotating around the color wheel.
For a better understanding of this concept, refer to the standard display of the
Colors palette (Hue Ring and Saturation/Value Triangle), and note the order
of the colors on the Hue Ring. Notice that as you change parameters within
the Edit Gradient dialog box, gradient previews are updated on the Gradients
palette.
Capturing a Gradient from an Image
You can use any existing image as a source for creating new gradients. You could
capture the colors in a photo of a sunset, or paint your own range of colors as the
content of a gradient.