Creating Color Blends

You can create a color blend for a graph document or a selected graph’s plot frame.

Note: Plot frame blends are unavailable for polar and pie graphs.

Step 1
Click a graph window to make it active.

Step 2
Do one of the following:

• For a plot frame blend, double-click a graph’s plot frame to display the Plot Frame Attributes dialog, then click Fill Attributes to display the Plot Frame Fill Attributes dialog.

• For a document blend, choose Document Color from the View menu to display the Document Color dialog.

Step 3
Under Fill Type, choose Blend from the pop-up menu.

Step 4
Select a starting color from the Start Color pop-up palette.

Step 5
Select an ending color from the End Color pop-up palette.

Step 6
Choose a style from the Style pop-up menu:

• Linear creates a blend that contains linear bands of color at a specified angle.

• Radial creates a blend that contains circular bands of color radiating outward from a specified point.

Step 7
Choose a step from the Step pop-up menu to specify color progression from the starting color to the ending color:

• Constant provides an even progression.

• Log provides a logarithmic progression.

Step 8
Choose a transition percentage from the Transition pop-up menu.

The blend’s transition is the point at which the starting blend color begins to change to the ending blend color. It is measured as a percentage offset from the origin of the blend.

Step 9
If you chose a Linear blend in step 6, do one of the following to choose a blend angle:

• Choose an angle from the Angle pop-up menu.

• Enter an angle value in the space provided.

Step 10
If you chose a Radial blend in step 6, do one of the following to specify the blend origin’s offset from the upper-left corner of the plot frame or graph document:

• Choose values from the Horizontal and Vertical pop-up menus.

• Enter horizontal and vertical values in the spaces provided.

Step 11
Click Show to preview the blend in the graph window, then click OK.

See also:
Color Palette, Loading
Document Color
Plot Frame Attributes

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