Operation Manual

Chapter 10: The Title Editor 191
otherwise standard Windows color-picker dialog to
which an Opacity slider (0-100%) has been added.
The swatch beside the second button
pops up a gradient designer that lets you
define a gradient by assigning the
starting colors to each corner of a square
surface. Click the color swatches in the
corners of the gradient window to set the
color for that corner in a color-picker dialog.
Note: Some of the more elaborate supplied looks em-
ploy special internal features and so cannot be edited.
The Favorites tab lets you save particular
custom looks that you may want to re-use in the future,
to spare you from having to remember or record the
parameters you used. Click the left-hand button to save
the current look as one of your favorites. Click the
right-hand button to delete the currently-selected
“favorite”.
The Backgrounds section
A title or menu can have four types of background:
a solid color, a gradient, transparency (no
background at all) or an image file (such as a drawing,
photograph or saved video frame).
The color and gradient options in the Backgrounds
section of the Title Editor work in just the same way as