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Adobe InDesign 2025 Basics | macOS Edition
  • Introduction
  • Setting up your project
    • Connecting to Your Class Folder
    • Creating a Project Folder
    • Opening InDesign
    • Creating a New Document
    • Opening an Existing InDesign Project
    • Saving Your Project
  • Working with text
    • Creating a Text Box
    • Moving a Text Box
    • Resizing a Text Box
    • Deleting a Text Box
    • Using Overset Text Button
    • Formatting Text
    • Character Formatting Controls
    • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Working with tools
    • Selection Tools
    • Drawing and Type Tools
    • Transformation Tools
    • Modification and Navigation Tools
  • Working with images
    • Adding an Image to Your Document
    • Resizing an Image and Its Frame
    • Resizing and Repositioning an Image in Its Frame
    • Changing Object Stacking Order
    • Wrapping Text to an Image
    • Deleting an Image
  • Working with shapes, strokes, and color
    • Creating a Shape
    • Creating a Line
    • Creating a Custom Color
    • Creating a Gradient
    • Changing the Fill Color of a Shape
    • Changing the Color of a Stroke
    • Changing the Weight of a Stroke
    • Changing the Stroke Type
    • Removing a Stroke
  • Working with layers
    • Selecting a Layer
    • Locking or Unlocking a Layer
    • Changing Layer Visibility
    • Creating a New Layer
    • Moving a Layer
    • Deleting a Layer
  • Exporting a PDF
    • Exporting a PDF
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  1. Working with shapes, strokes, and color

Creating a Gradient

  1. Click the Swatches panel (on right) to expand it.

  2. Click the More drop-down button (upper-right) in the Swatches panel. Select New Gradient Swatch.

  3. In the Type drop down list select a Linear or Radial gradient.

  4. In the New Gradient Swatch control box, select a Stop Color (small box under the Gradient Ramp).

  5. With a Stop Color selected, set a color for it in the Stop Color area. Repeat this process for the other Stop Color.

  6. If necessary, change the center point of the gradient by clicking and dragging the diamond above the Gradient Ramp.

  7. In the Swatch Name field, name your gradient.

  8. When finished, click OK.

  9. Your gradient will now appear as a Fill in the Swatches panel (on the right) and in the Fill drop-down menu on the Control bar.

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