Share your creations. You can also send your Rainbow gradient file to any of your friends. To add the gradient to his/her library, the person receiving
the file must place the file in Paint Shop Pro 7's Gradients folder, open the gradient editor and click on the Import button.
Webmaster
Paint Shop Pro : A rainbow gradient (v7)
[ Contents ]
Bernard Jolivalt
Saving and Using the Effect
Your rainbow gradient is finished. All that remains now is to save it, so that you can use it wherever you want.
Click on the Export button and export the gradient with the name rainbow.grd. By default, Paint Shop Pro saves the file in the Gradients folder.
Figure 8: The colours of the rainbow are now included in the pre-set gradients library.
Later on, you will be able to use the gradient picker to select this gradient and apply it to the image of your choice. A gradient can be applied to a selection. So you will have to create your selection (a shape, text) and use the Flood Fill tool once you have set the gradient as the foreground colour. If you have not defined a selection, the gradient will cover the entire layer (that is to say, the entire image).
Figure 9: Rainbow lettering...
Share your creations. You can also send your Rainbow gradient file to any of your friends. To add the gradient to his/her library, the person receiving
the file must place the file in Paint Shop Pro 7's Gradients folder, open the gradient editor and click on the Import button.