Filling options

Hi everyone,

I hope someone can answer my question. It seems I should have found an 
answer pretty easily...but alas, the simplest things are sometimes the most 
puzzling ones.

I'm new to Painter, and I have to say I am going *a little* crazy - what an 
awesome piece of work!

I am however getting really frustrated with the filling options. Mainly, 
with the fact that when filling with a 2 colour gradient, I can't seem to 
choose the orientation of the colors. It always fills from right to left. 
Needless to say, my beautiful sunset sky looks a little...crooked. Is there 
no way of selecting gradient (eg from centre, diagonal, top to bottom?).

Now to remedy this, I've rotated the window, so I can now draw 
'upright'...yet when I save, it reverts to its original position, and I 
can't find a way to save it in the position I want it to appear. Of course I 
drew the background directly on the work area, so I can't simply rotate a 
plan...

Help? 

Aaaahhhh...

My saviour!

Thank you so much David, I knew there had to be a simple explanation...now 
Painter makes COMPLETE sense (well, I mean, as far as gradients go). Much to 
learn still!

Thanks a million
Christine

"David Gell" <david.gell@ntlworld.com> wrote in message 
news:C2CACAB6.1346A%david.gell@ntlworld.com...
>
> Hi Christine,
>
> I believe you will find all the options you require and more in the
> Gradients palette (Window menu> Library Palettes> Show Gradients).
To
> control the angle of fill for the linear gradient, rotate the red button 
> in
> the Gradient Angle Ring (the ring around the large square in the Gradients
> palette).
>
> David
>
> On 23/7/07 14:09, in article 46a35686$1_1@cnews, "Christine"
> <starlizard@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I hope someone can answer my question. It seems I should have found an
>> answer pretty easily...but alas, the simplest things are sometimes the

>> most
>> puzzling ones.
>>
>> I'm new to Painter, and I have to say I am going *a little* crazy -
what 
>> an
>> awesome piece of work!
>>
>> I am however getting really frustrated with the filling options.
Mainly,
>> with the fact that when filling with a 2 colour gradient, I can't seem
to
>> choose the orientation of the colors. It always fills from right to
left.
>> Needless to say, my beautiful sunset sky looks a little...crooked. Is 
>> there
>> no way of selecting gradient (eg from centre, diagonal, top to
bottom?).
>>
>> Now to remedy this, I've rotated the window, so I can now draw
>> 'upright'...yet when I save, it reverts to its original position, and
I
>> can't find a way to save it in the position I want it to appear. Of 
>> course I
>> drew the background directly on the work area, so I can't simply rotate
a
>> plan...
>>
>> Help?
>>
>>
>>
>
> 

Hi Christine,

I believe you will find all the options you require and more in the
Gradients palette (Window menu> Library Palettes> Show Gradients). To
control the angle of fill for the linear gradient, rotate the red button in
the Gradient Angle Ring (the ring around the large square in the Gradients
palette).

David 

On 23/7/07 14:09, in article 46a35686$1_1@cnews, "Christine"
<starlizard@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I hope someone can answer my question. It seems I should have found an
> answer pretty easily...but alas, the simplest things are sometimes the
most
> puzzling ones.
> 
> I'm new to Painter, and I have to say I am going *a little* crazy - what
an
> awesome piece of work!
> 
> I am however getting really frustrated with the filling options. Mainly,
> with the fact that when filling with a 2 colour gradient, I can't seem to
> choose the orientation of the colors. It always fills from right to left.
> Needless to say, my beautiful sunset sky looks a little...crooked. Is
there
> no way of selecting gradient (eg from centre, diagonal, top to bottom?).
> 
> Now to remedy this, I've rotated the window, so I can now draw
> 'upright'...yet when I save, it reverts to its original position, and I
> can't find a way to save it in the position I want it to appear. Of course
I
> drew the background directly on the work area, so I can't simply rotate a
> plan...
> 
> Help? 
> 
> 
>