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Applying gradients

Applying gradients - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Applying gradients

The use of gradients are a common design technique that can add a professional style to your layouts by blending colors together smoothly. FileMaker 12 now allows you to apply gradients to objects selected in Layout mode. For example, if we go into Layout mode and select our Header part, once selected under the Inspector in the Appearance Tab, you'll see in this section called Graphic that we can use the dropdown to select Gradient. Gradients of course, can be applied to any Layout object. We just happened to be selecting a layout part object for this example. And now you will see with this element here in the middle that on the very far left-hand side it is going to be one color and the very far right-hand side is going to be another, and those are the colors that are going to be blended together. So, right now it's just two shades of gray, so let's go in here and select a color for the left-hand side and select another color for the right, we will just blend this color into white…

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