Or drag and drop from the fill box onto the frame.īetter: Create a new gradient swatch by drag and dropping the fill box into the Swatches panel.īest: Choose New Gradient Swatch from the Swatches panel menu. Good: To apply it to a frame, select the frame (your stops will disappear but don’t panic) and click the ramp or the fill box. Once you’ve made the gradient with the colors you want, what do you do with it? If you drop it in between stops, it becomes its own stop.ĭrag the diamond on top of the ramp to move the midpoint of the gradient, if desired. Nor do you have to drop the swatch on a stop. You don’t actually have to select a stop first. Instead of clicking on the swatch, drag it to the gradient ramp. Hold down the option/alt key while you click on the swatch.Ģ. There are two ways of dealing with this quirk.ġ. This is like clicking on a character style and the only result being all your text becomes de-selected. The answer is, clicking a swatch will not fill the selected gradient stop, but it will hide all the stops in the Gradient panel! Excuse me a moment… #%!?…Ahem. There’s every reason to believe that it will, right? Without peeking below, raise your hand if you think that clicking on another swatch will fill the selected gradient stop with that swatch color. With the stop selected, you can see in the Swatches panel that this stop is. You can tell a stop is selected when its teeny tiny triangle is black. With either selection tool, click on the ramp (the long rectangle) or the fill box (the big square) to show the gradient stops (the little shapes dangling from the ramp).Ĭlick on a stop. Could there be any less information to work with? Oh well, when in doubt, click. There’s no default keyboard shortcut.Ī silent cipher of a panel. Open the panel by choosing Window > Gradient. The Gradient panel seems to have a knack for applying gradients when you don’t want them. Is there a way to get this to be a color gradient? What am I missing here?” The gradient panel only gives me a b/w gradient.
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Question from the Mailbag: “One thing I can’t figure out, and it’s very frustrating, is how to make a color gradient in InDesign.
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