Creating a gradient of colour and shape

**AndyD** · 31 May 2007, 12:09 PM

HI All,

I have seen recently a few commercials on both telly and in the press/magazines for different companies who all seem to be using an interesting visual effect. They have a graphic of say a number of circles, say orange, on a white background and as you traverse the image form left to right the orange circles become white circles on an orange background. I've tried thinking about how I could do this, but I am absolutely stumped.... I'm looking for a graphics to display the effect I mean.... please bear with me...

Cheers
Andy

PS
There's a graphic on this sitehttp://www.soltron.us/ which shows the type of effect but with blues.

**gwpriester** · 31 May 2007, 01:19 PM

You might try a blend from orange to white for the objects and a blend or Linear fill for the background.

Xara can create a blend of up to 999 steps.

Gary

**AndyD** · 31 May 2007, 02:32 PM

HI Gary,
Will see if I can do something with your advice....

Cheers
Andy

**DocBambs** · 01 June 2007, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by AndyD

HI All,

I have seen recently a few commercials on both telly and in the press/magazines for different companies who all seem to be using an interesting visual effect. They have a graphic of say a number of circles, say orange, on a white background and as you traverse the image form left to right the orange circles become white circles on an orange background. I've tried thinking about how I could do this, but I am absolutely stumped.... I'm looking for a graphics to display the effect I mean.... please bear with me...

I did this for someone earlier this year as a an example of what was possible...

http://www.bamberger.plus.com/ogi01.jpg

There are two objects: the background, to which I applied a linear fill, white to red, and the hearts are just single images duplicated and grouped with a linear fill going the other way. Zara3D was used for the big heart.

I added more to the final version and it was printed by a mid-range photo printer onto glossy card. It looked very commercial.

Simple - less than 5 mins.

DocBambs