graduated fills perpendicular
Hi
creating a graphic for a web site it's 748 px wide and I want to do a graduated fill top to bottom leaving parallel colour bands.
However the hand is not so steady thought that shift and drag or ctl and drag might constrain the drag but not so.
Is there a keyboard shortcut?
thanks
Ian
Re: graduated fills perpendicular
[CTRL] should constrain it in 45° increments Ian. The constrain angle is defined in the Options menu - General Tab. Make sure it is set to 30°, 45° or 90° to do what you need
Re: graduated fills perpendicular
Thanks- still can't find it in the help file but problem solved
cheers
Ian
Re: graduated fills perpendicular
You can use a combination of Ctrl / Shift / Alt along with the arrow keys for finer control of the drag arrows & handles for solid and transparent fills (amongst other things):
When units set to pixels:
↑←↑↓ = 1 pixel
Shift + ↑←↑↓ = 10 pixels
Ctrl+↑←↑↓ = 5 pixels
Alt+↑←↑↓ = 1 screen pixel at any zoom (larger the zoom, smaller the movement of the object or control arrow)
Re: graduated fills perpendicular
Search "constrain" in the help file.
Re: graduated fills perpendicular
constrain - thats the word!!!!
found it now :-)
I always find help files are great as long as you know the key word and how to spel it.
thanks
Ian