Grass Valley iTX Desktop v.2.6 - Manual (Page 232)

The CG application
Example 1 Example 2
1. Select a text block.
2. Click Graduation to display the color-graduation controls.
The color boxes show the two colors that are to feature in the fill; the arrow button
between them shows the direction of graduation from the first color to the second.
3. Do the following to set the fill properties.
• Click the left color box to display the Color Selector; pick the first color. More details ,
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• Click the right color box to display the Color Selector; pick the second color.
• Click the arrow button to set the direction of graduation.
• Select Character (the button indicator displays a green light) if you want the graduation
to take place within individual characters; ensure Character is not selected if you want
the graduation to happen across the CG as a whole.
• Select Repeat (the button indicator displays a green light) if you want the graduation to
repeat back to the first color; ensure Repeat is not selected if you want just a single
graduation between the two colors.
• Click SWAP if you want to change the order of the colors.
Apply a textured fill to CG text
You can give CG text a textured appearance by using an image to fill the characters. For this,
you use the textured-fill controls:
This illustration shows text with a textured fill:
1.
Select a text block.
2. Click Texture to display the image preview window.
3. Click the preview window.
The CG application opens PinPoint, the iTX search tool.
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