User Guide

Director MX Basics Tutorial 69
Fill the shape with color
After you’ve drawn the cloud outline, you can fill it with color. Because this is an animation of
a sunset, the cloud will have an orange gradient. A gradient is a smooth blending of one color
into another.
To create the gradient, you use the Paint Bucket tool and the Gradient ink.
1 Select the Paint Bucket tool from the toolbar in the Paint window.
You use this tool to fill enclosed lines.
2 Select an orange color from the Gradient Start color box. This will be the starting color of your
gradient. Your cloud will look best if you select the same orange you used for the cloud outline.
3 Select a darker orange or a red from the Gradient End color box. This will be the ending color
of your gradient.
4 Select the Gradient ink from the Ink pop-up menu at the bottom of the Paint window. This
causes the Paint Bucket tool to paint a gradient with the specified colors rather than simply
filling the area with the current foreground color.
Gradient start color
Gradient end color
Ink pop-up menu