Glass Gradient PSP6/7

PSP7 set stroke to null and fill to gradient; PSP6 do what you do to edit gradients (think it's from the Tool Options box). foreground: light gray and background: white

PSP7 again: after you've set your fill to gradient, click in the center of the fill box (img1), then click on edit.

You'll get a new box, this is the gradient editor. Click on New button, which should bring up the gradient name box (name what you like, I named mine glass and put a #1 (with a space) in front like this "#1 Glass" of course without the quotation marks. I did this since I use my glass gradient frequently and the numbered gradients come up first in the list. Ok you picked whatever name you like and clicked OK.

In the second main window named Gradient, click on the first box with the black triangle on top of it, it is on the left side of the color line. Now click on the Fore box button that has the top left triangle on it...there you just set your first color to be whatever is showing in your foreground box. Now click on the other color line box/triangle to select it, then click on the Back box button that has the lower right triangle to set your second color to whatever background color you've chosen.

For regular full opacity gradients, this is all that needs to be done (unless you wish to add more colors, in which case you just click underneath the color line to add a new box/triangle then pick your colors by clicking in the second larger box after Custom). However glass is transparent.

In the third main portion of the gradient editor, called Transparency, click first box/triangle and then enter 50 into the Opacity slider box. Click on second triangle box on right to select it, then enter 50 into the opacity box again. What you've just done is set an even transparency of 50% to your entire gradient (just this one, not all of them). Just as with the gradient color line above, you can add new box/triangles to the transparency line...you can slide them around to move them, or enter in exact percentage locations with the Location box for both gradient color line and Transparency line. Click OK and now you'll have your glass gradient.

I have found that the gradient editor can be hard on my system (this one as well as an older one), so I make sure and save anything prior to editing gradients. Hopefully this will not happen to you, but I thought I should let you all know it happens to me just in case it might happen to you too. If you edit gradients frequently, or start to now you've made one today, this might come in handy to know.

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