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Chapter 7 Working with Images, Shapes, and Other Objects 173

7 To create a radial gradient, click the radial gradient button. You can further adjust the

look of a radial gradient by doing any of the following:

To recenter the gradient in the object, drag the small, blue, circular blend point Â

control (in the center of the gradient within your object) to where you want the

center to be.

To change how sharply or subtly the colors blend along the gradient, drag Â

the circular blend point control, outside your object, closer or farther from the

gradient’s center.

Experiment with the circular blend point controls attached to your object and the

blend point controls above the gradient strip in the Graphic inspector, dragging

them until you create the look you want.

8 To invert the gradient, click the double-headed arrow next to the color wells.

Filling an Object with an Image

You can ll a shape, text box, table, table cell, chart background, or chart series with

an image.

To ll an object with an image:

1 Select the object you want to ll with an image.

2 If the Graphic inspector isn’t open, click Inspector in the toolbar and click the

Graphic button.

3 In the Graphic inspector, choose Image Fill or Tinted Image Fill, and then choose

an image.

You can also drag an image le from the Finder or Media Browser to the image well in

the Graphic inspector or to a table cell or chart series.

Use the pop-up menu to

set the size of the image

within the object.

To change the image,

drag an image to the

image well.

4 Choose an image scale from the pop-up menu.

Scale to Fit: Resizes the image to t the object’s dimensions as well as possible. If the

object’s shape is dierent from that of the original image’s, parts of the image may not

appear; blank space may also appear around the image.

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