Changing Letter colors

[Gamerprinter]

Sometimes it helps to zoom in close so you can see the fade line clearly, and nudge your mouse to get it straight - sometimes its fiddly, I agree, but I seem to get it to work fine. I use both color and transparency fades all the time, though more often I am using the fractal cloud filter, rather than linear, but operations are identical for color changing and adjusting.

[bcire68]

If you hold down the Ctrl key when applying the linear fill it will constrain the fill arrow to specific angles. The angles can be set in options but it should work for what you are after, right out of the box.