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Gradient color
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Your brush adopts the colors and opacities defined in your gradient.
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This kind of color is useful to:
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•paint feathers, hair, tissue, grass, fur ... |
•create backgrounds for sky, landscapes, ... |
•bring a variety of colors in your stroke |
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Gradient editor presentation
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Click on the gradient preview.
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The editor menu unfolds
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Or Click on the arrow before Element name.
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When you go back to your drawing, the compact version appears to show you only the essential settings.
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Once you are done setting up your gradient, simply click anywhere outside the color parameters window to close the window and use these settings.
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Gradient editing
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Customization of your gradient
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Gradients are defined with pickers.
The color is automatically interpolated between the pickers.
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Open the picker editor
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Clicking on a picker displays its parameters.
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▪Colors, to see the selected color ▪Settings, to set its opacity and its location on the gradient ▪HSV, to adjust quickly the selected color |

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Change the gradient behavior
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When you put your cursor between two pickers a triangle appears.
If you slide it more or less, the gradient behavior changes.
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Example in the brush preview
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Add a picker
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Near the gradient editor a pointing hand icon appears.
At this location a color picker can be added by clicking.
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NB: The picker added takes the intermediate color which is visible in the gradient
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Shift a picker
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Take your picker and move it along your gradient.
If you want an exact value you can also click on it and change its location value in Settings.
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Delete a picker
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If you drag and drop a picker outside the area its appearance changes.
If releasing it, it is deleted.
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With the historic color
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Move your cursor over the small color preview. Its historic is displayed.
It is possible to select existing colors to compose your gradient.
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With the color palette
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To open your color palette:
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Click again on your current picker
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While your color palette is opened
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Click on the small color preview
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The alpha value of a picker
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In the settings of the selected picker, if its alpha is decreased, then your gradient has a transparent part.
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Gradient alpha
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Decrease the overall alpha of your gradient, only the final gradient becomes more transparent. It is a quick way to change its alpha.
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This adjustment doesn't change the opacity value of your picker.
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Gradient edition in multiple selection
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All pickers selected can be changed at the same time.
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Select all
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To select all your pickers at once click on Select All
All pickers are modified at the same time when you change their parameters.
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Select more & less
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Select or deselect your picker individually:
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▪Hold the CTRL key ▪Activate the Ctrl button in the interface |

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All colors of selected pickers appear successively.
Each color preview offers access to the color history.
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Settings
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Your selected pickers are modified proportionally
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Gradient reference
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Alpha
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When you use alpha on selected pickers, they are modified proportionally:
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▪If you decreased the alpha value they all become more transparent. ▪If you increased it, they all become more opaque. |
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Displacement
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▪When your location value is negative, all selected pickers go to the left of the gradient, ▪If it's a positive value they go to the right of the gradient. |
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HSV
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Gradient reference
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Hue
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Allows you to change the colors of selected pickers according to their original color.
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Saturation
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When the S value is:
▪negative your color is more gray. ▪positive your color is more present. |
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Value
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When the V value is:
▪negative your color is darker ▪positive your color is lighter |
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