Sometime around 21/3/08 (at 17:37 -0400) Jamie Turner said:
Can you all direct me towards an action that creates a gradated look
and feel on a graphic box?
That’s easy. But first I have to say that this isn’t a Web 2.0 thing,
it is just a technique or style that’s been around online ever since
web browsers supported using graphics as page backgrounds. 
All you need to do is make a graphic that has the desired
top-to-bottom blended fill. You don’t even need to make this a large
thing, just 20 pixels wide or so and as tall as you want the blend to
be. Browsers will tile the graphic as many times as necessary to fill
the window.
You can make the graphic in any program that can create blends, and
Photoshop is a logical choice. But you can also make the original
graphic right here in Freeway…
Draw a graphic box. Make it 20 or 30 pixels wide by - ohh, 500 pixels tall.
With it selected, go to Item > Actions > Fill Master.
Open the Actions palette and set the Fill to Linear, the Angle to 270
degrees, and the First and Second colours to your start and end blend
colours. You may want to take time out to mix up your own custom
colours at this point.
Still with the graphic selected, choose File > Export.
Make sure the Selection button is chosen, and set Format to JPEG.
(GIF may well be worth trying too, but start with this for now.)
Name the file.
IMPORTANT: include .jpg or .jpeg at the end of the file name. Freeway
still doesn’t do this for you. (Doh!)
Save the file somewhere.
Deselect the box, click the Appearance icon in the Inspector palette
(that’s the brush icon), and use the Image popup menu to select your
graphic.
Play with the tiling controls to see how you can change the
behaviour. Try setting Horizontal to tile and Vertical to Top, and
then set the page’s Color to the same colour as at the bottom of the
blend graphic.
k
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