How do I make 1 color gradually transition into another?

[Geoffrey]

I am working with Corel PaintShop Pro X8.

I am having trouble finding the right words for what I am trying to do, but a picture is worth a thousand words:


Notice the background colors gradually go from green at the top to yellow at the bottom. It's not simply two blocks of color with the border faded. It's like a little slice of the color spectrum, gradually changing from green to yellow.

How can I do that? Any guidance would be much appreciated.

[LeviFiction]

With gradients.

In the materials palette if you click on the foreground color you'll get the color picker dialog. In the color picker dialog there is a "Gradient" tab. This lets you choose pre-made gradients or design your own. Gradients gradually move from one color into another. You get to choose which colors, how far apart they are, and where the middle of the change is.

Here is the documentation on using Gradients

http://help.corel.com/paintshop-pro/v19 ... ients.html

Gradients can then be applied with the paint brush tool, the fill tool, or as a fill inside of a vector object.

[hartpaul]

What you are after is a gradient.
In X8 and others this is obtained by double clicking the Foreground and Stroke or Background and Fill Properties boxes.
You then get the Material properties dialog with 4 tabs across the top:
Color , Gradient , Pattern, Texture.
Click on the Gradient tab and you should see 6 of the available gradients.
They start with Black-white, Blue metallic and if you scroll down you should find one (they are in alphabetical order) that says Foregrou... - hovering over it it will say Corel_06_029 and is actually a Foreground -Background gradient.

If you have previously selected a green and a yellow for your two colors then selected the Foreground - Background gradient and click OK then you can flood fill a blank white canvas with just the effect you are after.
I tried searching for a simple gradient tutorial on Youtube but many are for earlier versions or the latest gradient effect in X9. Many have very poor sound and are most unsuitable.

However if you open X8 and click on Help > Help Topics and type in Gradient and search you will find a section "Using Gradients" where the use of gradients is explained in reference to X8.

[Geoffrey]

Update:

Finally did it.

Thank you for your help!

[TimW]

Very good info by hartpaul & LeviFiction. There is another way to achieve this in PSP X8. Go to <Effects>, <Photo Effects>, <Graduated Filter> there you can see a Before & After view. Pick your colors to blend then play with the sliders a bit 'till you get what you want. A vertical bar with end handles (in the right pane) let you adjust the transition in a multitude of ways.

[latitude]

What you are after is a gradient.
In X8 and others this is obtained by double clicking the Foreground and Stroke or Background and Fill Properties boxes.
You then get the Material properties dialog with 4 tabs across the top:
Color , Gradient , Pattern, Texture.
Click on the Gradient tab and you should see 6 of the available gradients.
They start with Black-white, Blue metallic and if you scroll down you should find one (they are in alphabetical order) that says Foregrou... - hovering over it it will say Corel_06_029 and is actually a Foreground -Background gradient.

If you have previously selected a green and a yellow for your two colors then selected the Foreground - Background gradient and click OK then you can flood fill a blank white canvas with just the effect you are after.
I tried searching for a simple gradient tutorial on Youtube but many are for earlier versions or the latest gradient effect in X9. Many have very poor sound and are most unsuitable.

However if you open X8 and click on Help > Help Topics and type in Gradient and search you will find a section "Using Gradients" where the use of gradients is explained in reference to X8.

I just tried doing it this way and it works fantastic, thank you for the instructions