graduated fills perpendicular

[jen0dorf]

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

[ss-kalm]

[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

[jen0dorf]

Thanks- still can't find it in the help file but problem solved

cheers

Ian

[steve.ledger]

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)

[ss-kalm]

Search "constrain" in the help file.

[jen0dorf]

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