Gradient Fill: One Color

About this task

An object's fill is configured on the Colors tab of its Properties dialog box.

If you want a fill to be one color that becomes lighter or darker in a specified manner, you can easily.

1 Style
2 Shade Style
3 Variant
4 One color
5 Color
6 Brightness
1 Style

Select Gradient...

Procedure

  1. (Optional) Click the Browse button to the right of the Style drop-down list.

    The Fill Effects dialog box opens.

  2. Select the Gradient tab.
    2 Shade Style

    CimEdit provides several gradient styles for filling the selected object.

    Style types include:

    • Horizontal
    • Vertical
    • Diagonal up
    • Diagonal down
    • From corner
    • To corner
    • From center.

    Do one of the following.

    • Select the style from the drop-down list in the Properties dialog box.
    • Check a gradient style in the Fill Effects dialog box.
    3 Variant

    Variations of the selected shade style.

    Do one of the following.

    • Select the style from the drop-down list in the Properties dialog box.
    • Click a gradient style in the Fill Effects dialog box.
    Note: The variants in the two top two boxes indicate that the fill should conform to the shape of the object, e.g. if the shape is a polygon the fill will follow the lines in the polygon; if it is an ellipse the shape will follow the ellipse.

    As a result, when an ellipse is selected, for some shading styles, the top and bottom variant fills will actually look the same. For other shapes, e.g. a rectangle) they will look exactly like the images indicated in the Variants boxes.

    Example

    A dark green one color gradient has been applied to a rectangle and circle, as follows.

    A From center is selected as the shading style.
    B The top left variant is selected.
    C The rectangle object fill looks like the selection.
    D The ellipse object fill conforms to the shape; as a result it resembles the bottom left box.
    4 One color

    Check one color to configure a gradient that had one selected color shaded from light to dark based on its configuration.

    5 Color

    The one color in the gradient. Where it is positioned static to light/dark shading depends on the selected gradient.

    The Down arrow to the right of the Color field opens the CimEdit palette.

    6 Brightness

    Slide the Brightness tab to the spot that defines the desired intensity of the fill.

    • The left most position corresponds to the minimum possible intensity of zero (black).
    • The right most position corresponds to the maximum possible intensity of 255 (white).