User Manual

Laserworld Showeditor 2015
Version 2015/1.0 2015 Page 88
When using the Color Shove Tool, several choices are possible:
● “Direction increasing point number”
This option determines the direction to shoving the colors.
● “Move also blanking”
When active, also the blanked points are shoved (the property “invisible” is regarded
as color and is shoved through the figure).
● “All frames of figure”
This option works for multi-frame figures. It adds a special color shove, consisting of
two effects:
1) The colors of the first frame are shifted through all points the frames created by the
Color Shove Tool.
2) The coordinates of the points reference to the ones in the existing frames of the
figure.
It is recommended to test the different features of the Color Shove Tool to
understand their behaviour and to learn more about their potential.
6.18.13. Tool: Insert Color Gradient / Insert Smooth Colors
This tool inserts a color gradient to the figure. There is already an option “Use Soft
Color” within the Effects Window (See chapter 4.3.) and indeed, this function does
the same, except for one main difference: The “Use Soft Color” effect is processed
just before the output of the figure. If it is e.g. intended to shift colors of a figure with
color gradient or to use a colour gradient for the path tool, then “Use Soft Colour”
has no effect.
The Insert Color Gradient Tool allows for directly creating color gradients and adding
them to the figure. As the color gradient is then applied to the very frame, further
tools and modifications can be applied with respect of the applied gradient.
It is necessary that the active figure has been saved, before applying the tool.
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Extra Tools: Color Shove