Painting textures
You can apply texture, hatch, symbol, or gradient inks in the same
manner as described in the following demonstration.
1
Import an image into Canvas.
2
Open the Inks palette via the Toolbox or by choosing Windows
> Palettes > Inks.
3
Click and drag out the Painting tools.
4
Click and drag out the Brushes palette.
Blend options
Style. Choose Radial or Lin-
ear.
Offset. For Radial style, enter
a value to set the percentage
of starting color in the blend.
To use more of the starting
color in the blend, enter a
number from 50 to 100.
Skew. To set the midpoint
between blend colors, enter a
number from 13 to 87. The
default is 50.
Behavior. Choose a blending
method. Foreground and
Background refer to the cur-
rent colors in the Toolbox.
Transparent options fade from
the foreground color to trans-
parency. Spectrum blends cre-
ate rainbow blends in a clock-
wise or counter-clockwise
direction around the color
wheel.
A Example of a blend used to
vignette a photograph. The fol-
lowing Blend options were
used:
Radial-style blend
Behavior = Transparent to
Foreground
(Foreground color white)
Offset = 10
Skew = 70
Original
A
1 An image before adding a
texture.