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Apply lineAr And rAdiAl grAdients
At this point your artwork is a technically complete piece of artwork; all of the shapes
are in place, with the necessary solid fills and strokes to clearly portray a digital
Corvette. To add greater depth and dimension, however, you are going to apply
gradients to the car’s body and window.

1. With corvette.fla open, click the window shape with the Selection tool.

2. Using either the Properties or Tools panel, open the Fill Color palette and
choose the white-to-black radial gradient swatch.
Note:
As soon as you apply the gradient, you see the gradient transformation handles around The terms “gradient”
the selected shape. You can ignore those for now.
and “blend” are used
interchangeably. Animate
documentation uses both
gradient and blend; both
With the window terms mean a smooth
fill selected... transition from one color
to another.

...choose the
white-to-black radial
gradient in the Fill
Color palette.

3. In the Color panel, click below the gradient ramp near the middle to add a
new color stop to the gradient. Note:
Clicking below the ramp adds a new stop, which defaults to the color of the location You can define up to 15
where you first click.
color stops in a single
gradient.

Click below the ramp to
add a stop to the gradient.

4. Drag the new stop left, to approximately one-fourth of the way across the ramp.

The selected shape
adopts the new
distribution of color.

Click the stop and drag
to move that color to a
different position along
the gradient.

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