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268 The Fill Tool

• RAINBOW: Blends along the shortest edge of the HSV color wheel. For example, a
blend from yellow to cyan runs yellow-green-cyan.

This option has no effect when the two colors are black, white or gray.

• ALT RAINBOW: Similar to rainbow except the blend is along the longest edge of the
color wheel. For example, yellow to cyan runs yellow-red-magenta-blue-cyan.

BITMAP NAME displays a pop-down menu showing thumbnails of all the bitmaps in the
BITMAP GALLERY and is an easy way to select the required bitmap for a bitmap fill.

FILL PROFILE - you can change the rate of the color transition between the start and end
of fills. This applies to all fill types except flat, three color, four color and bitmap (unless
it's a contone colored bitmap).
To change the profile of a fill:

1. Select the filled object.
2. On the FILL Tool InfoBar click PROFILE. This opens the PROFILE dialog box.
3. You either select a predefined profile from the dropdown list or drag the sliders to
create a custom profile. The top option in the dropdown list (the straight line)
creates a linear transition between the start and end of the fill.

Three different black-to-white graduated color fills and their corresponding profile dialogs. The
center, default, is a linear black-to-white transition.

FILL HANDLE: Indicates if the start or end handle is selected. This field is blank for flat fills.