Microsoft PowerPoint offers options for formatting a slideshow's objects. Shapes can receive a solid color, a pattern or a gradient whose color changes gradually. The gradient option includes a series ...

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.

The very shapes an artist uses in an image dictate, to a great degree, the mood, feel and ideas that the scene will communicate. We’ve looked at this already in terms of specific details, but it’s no ...