An object's fill is configured on the Colors tab of its Properties dialog box.
If you want a fill to be one color that becomes lighter or darker in a specified manner, you can easily.
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Style |
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Shade Style |
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Variant |
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One color |
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Color |
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Brightness |
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Select Gradient...
(Optional) Click the
button 
to the right of the Style
drop-down list.
The Fill Effects dialog box opens.
Select the Gradient tab.
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Shade Style |
CimEdit provides several gradient styles for filling the selected object.
Style types include:
Horizontal
Vertical
Diagonal up
Diagonal down
From corner
To corner
From center.
Do one of the following.
Select the style from the
drop-down list in the Properties dialog box.
Check a gradient style in the Fill
Effects dialog box.
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3 |
Variations of the selected shade style.
Do one of the following.
Select the style from the
drop-down list in the Properties dialog box.
Click a gradient style in the Fill
Effects dialog box.
Note: The variants in the
two top two boxes indicate that the fill should conform to the
shape of the object, e.g. if the shape is a polygon the fill will
follow the lines in the polygon; if it is an ellipse the shape will
follow the ellipse.
As a result, when an ellipse is selected, for some shading styles, the top and bottom variant fills will actually look the same. For other shapes, e.g. a rectangle) they will look exactly like the images indicated in the Variants boxes.
Example
A dark green one color gradient has been applied to a rectangle and circle, as follows.
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A |
From center is selected as the shading style. |
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B |
The top left variant is selected. |
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C |
The rectangle object fill looks like the selection. |
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D |
The ellipse object fill conforms to the shape; as a result it resembles the bottom left box. |
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4 |
Check one color to configure a gradient that had one selected color shaded from light to dark based on its configuration.
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The one color in the gradient. Where it is positioned relative to light/dark shading depends on the selected gradient.
The arrow
to the right of the Color field opens the CimEdit palette.
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Slide the Brightness tab to the spot that defines the desired intensity of the fill.
The left most position corresponds to the minimum possible intensity of zero (black).
The right most position corresponds to the maximum possible intensity of 255 (white).
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Gradient fill: Options |