• Apple Motion

  Making text face fill black to transparent gradient

  Posted by Jonathan Bierman on March 17, 2011 at 9:55 pm

  Hi geniuses, thank you in advance for helping me with a problem which I’m sure is a giant piece of piss to take care of. Here’s a screen grab:

  

  You can see what I’m trying to do – make a shadow of the text appear on the rolling hills. Problem is I cant get the gradient fill to go from black to transparent. The opacity slider is greyed out when i click on the little box to select my gradient colours, thus:

  

  What the hell am I doing wrong!?

  Jonathan Bierman replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andy Neil

  March 17, 2011 at 10:29 pm

  If you look at the gradient in your 2nd pic, at the top is a small white bar with a single tag on it. That is the opacity bar. Click in the white bar to add a 2nd opacity tag and then your opacity slider will become active.

  Andy

  https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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  Jonathan Bierman

  March 18, 2011 at 12:16 am

  User forums are such an amazing resource. It still blows my mind.

  Thank you SO MUCH.

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