To assign a color gradient to the color fill, click the arrow icon to expand the Area/Image color palette, and then do following:

1.In the color A list, select the starting color.

2.In the color B list, select the second color. If it's the same as the first color, then you have to specify the different tint. If you select [None] it will shade to no color.

3.In Fill, select Linear gradient.

4.In Angle, specify the angle of blending (0° is top down, 90° is left to right and so on).

5.Move the Speed slider on the right to give more space to the A color, or to the left, to give more space to the B color. The value of 50% distributes the color shading evenly.

6.Click the confirmation icon or press 8.

If you need to change the tint of the color, use the tint box to set a number between 0% (color behaves as "no color") and 100% (full color).

 

Figure 1: The A and B colors gets equal percentage of total space.

 

 

Figure 2: The A color gets 68% of total space, while the B color gets the remaining space.

Note

To assign transparent color (no color), select [None].

See also

Radial shading with custom origin and shading speed

Introduction to blending methods.