In Adobe After Effects, you can define complex color effects such as gradients by adjusting colors and opacity levels to your liking, and then applying them to shapes in your animations. You define ...

Using gradients, a progression of color that goes seamlessly from one shade to the next, can be an ideal way to dress up a background or add a jolt of color to a logo, avatar or other image file.

Launch GIMP and select Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Gradients. A Gradients window will show up in the upper right corner. The window lists all the gradients that come pre-installed with GIMP. To ...