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these three controls here are for the fill area
and they work basically the same way as the line controls
meaning if i select a shape
and change one of the controls
it affects the selection and when i click off that selection
it returns to the previous state
whereas if i change it with nothing selected
it doesn't affect anything immediately
but changes
everything add to the page
after
that change
let's add a shadow we can do that by selecting a shape
and clicking the
shadow toggle on-off
we'll leave that on
now let's select the next shape and go back to our area fill
I want to change this to invisible
and here we see that it just removes the fill color there's
no color inside there but we can still see the shape with the outline of the
shape
and it might maker our text a little easier to read
the next one down gradient gradient as we see here is basically just a
transition between two colors or light and dark as in gradient one
I'll choose
gradient five for this
we have hatching
hatching gets its name from a french artistic technique
by drawing parallel lines
and when they cross its called cross-hatching
when we bring down a dropdown box we see a bunch of parallel lines
the last one we have here is bit map
and libreoffice has some bitmaps already built in
we'll pick sky
this gives it a little cloud background
if we click and this bucket here it brings up our area box
we have our fill area which we've already looked at
the next tab is shadow
which has any checkbox it works the same as the shadow toggle on and off up on
our
toolbar
we can change the position of the shadow from here
we can change the distance
make it further away
closer
we can change that color
of the shadow, maybe light green
and the transparency we will make this seventy five
the transparency
we can turn on the transparency, the default here is fifty percent
the gradients, we're going to go over the gradients
in with the colors, i think it'll show off the point a lot better there
colors
we can change a color or add a new one from this screen
the way to add a new one is and i would take in
my new color
and then I'll click add
it gets added right down here at the bottom
you can see that i didn't change the color for the previous one so they are both
the same this would be the future color if i know
my RGB numbers i can type them in here
maybe
now i've updated my colors
the top one is my original color
if I cancel out
it will stay the original color
I can renamed this and add it to a new color or I can just modify this color
and i've just modified it
if i go into edit
this is just more ways of choosing the collar
and then from here i can also delete this new color if i like. i'm going to
leave it in there
moving onto gradients
as we mentioned before gradients are just the transition between to colors
and again i can add my own gradient
or pick from one of these
so i'm going to start with this one
and i'll say add
I'll call this
and just like with the color I just copied over
the one i was on gave it my new name
after i make my changes, I'll click the modify
and modify my new gradient
now we've got here the type, it's rectangle and you can see a little rectangle
here
we can also changes to linear and we see when we have linear the x and y values
are grayed out or inactive to make them active we need to have it
radial
or something with a point that we can move around on an x y axes
because it's one circular
now my an angle is grayed out
so if i go over to rectangular like we had
or if I go in to square
we have an x and y. the x will move us
from side to side
the y will take us, of course, up and down
are angle of degree
we can see how it turns
I'll get a little angle on there
the border make it smaller
or bigger
and of course we can change our colors
if you want green
and turquoise
green, light green and turquoise are the colors I'm picking for my new gradient
and I'll click modify
to update this color
and it brings up
the dialog box asking us, are we sure we want to update this color? or
enter a new name
for the gradient i want to update this one
so i just click ok
and their is our new gradient