Publisher: Colour Palette; Re - Global colour and Gradient

[Chris26]

Two questions please:

1. The first screen shot shows when I simply clicked on Blue and filled the Square shape.  The second screen shot shows when I clicked on a global colour as referenced by the last colour in the swatchs that has a littke white "thing" bottom left. QUESTION: When is a global colour not a global colour since both clicks produced the same result? Bit confused as to what defines a global colour here.

2. QUESTION, earlier on I used the Gradient fill tool (simply called "fill tool"):  for one colour this makes sense when you drag out a box or fill a box and apply it, BUT, I also accidently managed somehow to create a gradient that went from bluish through to reddish without being able to fathom out how on earth I achieved this within that same square box. I remember clicking on one colour then another, but what happened in between I have no idea since I was practising things too quickly to take note.

 

 

 

EDIT:  Is this the way to create a gradient of two colours ormore by creating several boxes within each othe or is there a more professional way to do this?

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Chris26 said:

QUESTION: When is a global colour not a global colour since both clicks produced the same result? Bit confused as to what defines a global colour here.

A global color is one that you have added to a Document Palette as a global color.

You can't tell by looking at an object on the screen whether it's fill is global or not, as far as I know. But the effect of assigning a global color as a fill is that if you edit the global color swatch and change its color, all the objects that have used that swatch will also change. That won't happen with a non-global color.

[Chris26]

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

A global color is one that you have added to a Document Palette as a global color.

You can't tell by looking at an object on the screen whether it's fill is global or not, as far as I know. But the effect of assigning a global color as a fill is that if you edit the global color swatch and change its color, all the objects that have used that swatch will also change. That won't happen with a non-global color.

Appreciate this Walt and thankyou. 

Just discovered my own answer to the multi coloured gradient question I posted, just far too impatient with myself .....

[Pšenda]

10 hours ago, Chris26 said:

Bit confused as to what defines a global colour here.

Why be confused, when it's easy to find in Help :-)

https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/pages/Clr/globalClr.html

[Chris26]

3 hours ago, Pšenda said:

Why be confused, when it's easy to find in Help 🙂

https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/pages/Clr/globalClr.html

I did read ot some hours before posting, but sometimes, written instructions go over my head, even the apparantly simplist ones, that's just me, when you spend so much time reading reading reading, things get over-looked as well, especially when they are explained so formally.  But thanks for the input Psenda.

[Pšenda]

2 hours ago, Chris26 said:

I did read ot some hours before posting, but sometimes, written instructions go over my head, even the apparantly simplist ones, that's just me, when you spend so much time reading reading reading, things get over-looked as well, especially when they are explained so formally.

I know that too 🙂
I don't know if this is the case of Global color (I would have to look at home), but for these purposes are quite good and beneficial Affinity Workbooks, which describes the use of individual tools/functions with respect to a particular type of work/project, so it may climb better and easier into the head.