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Creating multicolored gradient fills in Xara X is intuitive and painfully simple.

With the Fill Tool and the filled object selected, and the fill path arrow showing, drag a color from the screen palette and drop it onto the fill path arrow. The small icon to the right of the cursor changes to either a thin line to indicate line color, or a square to indicate fill. We want a medium blue fill.

NOTE: Once on the fill path, the color, or additional colors, can be dragged to new positions if desired.

Additional NOTE: Colors can be dragged and dropped onto non-selected objects as well.

To access the Color Editor (covered in the next paragraph) click the small color wheel icon to the left of the screen palette. To add a fill color to a selected object, click any color on the screen palette with the left mouse button. To apply an outline color, click with the right mouse button.

To set the fill color to none, click the cross hatched square with the left mouse button. To set the outline to none, right click the cross hatched square or select None from the Line Width drop down list on the Infobar.

To modify or mix a color, use the Color Editor (click the color wheel icon to the left of the screen palette).

If the Color Editor only shows half what is shown here, click the icon directly under the X button at the top of the menu to display the Advanced Options.

In the Color Editor, you can edit in RGB, CMYK, HSV, Grayscale and RGB Web/Hex modes.

You can name a color by clicking the yellow tag icon to the immediate right of the color drop down list. Click the button to the right of this to convert any mixed color to a web safe color.

Select the colors on the Linear Fill and change their values as shown in the illustrations.

NOTE: If you let the arrow cursor rest over any color on the screen palette, a Tool Tip appears with the color properties.

NOTE within a NOTE: If the colors shown in the Tool Tip are in percentage and not 0-255, you need to change the Color Units setting in the Page Options dialog. (See page 1). On the other hand, if you are specifying color for CMYK printing, use Percentage and not 0-255.