New to this forum and software. Just starting a site and after watching all the tutorials (which are extremely helpful) I can not figure out one small, simple thing?
How do you apply a fade affect to a graphic?
example:
I have a box filled with blue that I would like to fade from left to right, how is this accomplished?
(I have tried with a button and it worked great but not what I am going for)
Unfortunately, Freeway won’t allow you to use the ‘Fade’ or ‘Advanced
Fade’ actions on anything that you make within Freeway, like a graphic
box filled with blue. You’ll have to make a blue ‘picture’ outside
Freeway, in Photoshop or something similar, then the Freeway actions
will fade it beautifully. Or if you don’t have Photoshop or anything
that will do the job, make the graphic in Freeway, export it to the
Desktop as a JPEG, then drag that back in to Freeway. That will work.
Thank you for the quick replies. I was referring to a solid color object that is faded from left to right. I will try creating it in another program and importing it.
Thank you for the quick replies. I was referring to a solid color
object that is faded from left to right. I will try creating it in
another program and importing it.
Did you see my last post? Create it in Freeway as a graphic object,
and export it to the Desktop (or somewhere) as a JPEG. You can then
put it back into Freeway as a JPEG and the ‘fade’ action will work.
Unfortunately, Freeway won’t allow you to use the ‘Fade’ or ‘Advanced
Fade’ actions on anything that you make within Freeway, like a graphic
box filled with blue.
Well, don’t forget the “Fill Master” graphic action. Instead of selecting a color from your color palette, draw out a graphic item, apply the “Fill Master” action to it. Choose in your actions palette what color you want as the main color and then apply the “Fade” action to that and it’ll fade out the color on the bottom to whatever the color is below it. You could also apply the Advanced Fade action instead of Fade if you want more options with it.
And…you can get some pretty cool effects using Fill Master, Fade
and Advanced Fade. Not to mention Scanlines - ooer missus! I present
as proof one of my sites:
The guitar masthead effect was achieved using the Fill Master and
Advanced Fade Actions, the slideshow is courtesy of Weaver’s moo, and
I picked up the tip about the translator from the list courtesy of
Roger G. Freewaytalk is a brilliant support forum and Freeway is a
fabulous tool for the codely challenged amongst us!
All best wishes
Dick
On 18 Nov 2008, at 20:46, Dan J wrote:
Unfortunately, Freeway won’t allow you to use the ‘Fade’ or ‘Advanced
Fade’ actions on anything that you make within Freeway, like a
graphic
box filled with blue.
Well, don’t forget the “Fill Master” graphic action. Instead of
selecting a color from your color palette, draw out a graphic item,
apply the “Fill Master” action to it. Choose in your actions
palette what color you want as the main color and then apply the
“Fade” action to that and it’ll fade out the color on the bottom to
whatever the color is below it. You could also apply the Advanced
Fade action instead of Fade if you want more options with it.
