User's Guide

FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
Setting Up Your System
2.8.1 Creating Gradients
The Normal Gradient and HSL Gradient buttons let you automatically create a smooth scale of
colors between two entries on a palette.
1. Manually edit the colors of the palette entries that you wish to be the starting and ending
points of the gradient, using the Edit Color button.
2. Select the range of palette
entries for the gradient by
left-clicking on the starting
entry and dragging the
mouse to the ending entry.
The entries in between the
two entries will be
highlighted, as shown in the
example to the right.
3. Click either the Normal
Gradient or HSL Gradient
button to create the gradient.
You should experiment with
both options to find which
one you prefer.
2.8.2 Duplicating Palettes
You can use the Duplicate button to apply the color scheme of an existing weather product to the
currently selected product.
This process is intended to replace the colors of the currently selected palette
with the colors of another palette, not to create a copy of a palette. If you wish
to create a palette with the same color scheme as an existing palette, you
should first create a blank palette with the Add button, then use the Duplicate
button to copy the colors of the original palette into the blank palette.
When you click the Duplicate button, the Duplicate
product palette menu appears.
The pull-down list labeled Source product indicates the
product whose color palette you wish to duplicate.
Product names with an asterisk at the beginning are 16-
color palettes.
The area labeled Destination product indicates the
product to which you are copying colors. If this is not the
palette you wish to change, click Cancel to exit the menu.
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