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Fill a shape with a gradient
A gradient fades a shape from one colour to another. Crevano uses two colours plus an angle and a midpoint — the same three controls professional illustration tools give you.
Steps
- Click the shape to select it. The Shape group appears in the toolbar.
- Set Fill to your first colour.
- Click the ∅ button beside Fill 2. That switches the gradient on — the button is pressed in when the fill is solid, and released when a gradient is running.
- Click the Fill 2 swatch and pick your second colour.
- Set Angle.
0runs left to right,90runs top to bottom. It steps in 15° increments up to 359. - Set Mid — where the two colours meet, as a percentage across the shape.
50is the middle. Push it toward20and the first colour holds longer before the change.
> Note > Angle and Mid stay greyed out until Fill 2 is on, and the gradient will not > appear if Fill is set to none. If nothing seems to be happening, check those two first.
Turning it off
Click the ∅ button beside Fill 2 again. The shape goes back to a solid Fill, and your second colour is remembered if you switch the gradient back on.
Gradients on text
Text has its own gradient, and it is a separate control. Select the text, open the Text panel in the left rail, and click the Gradient chip under Effects — then pick its two colours there. See Add text and style it.