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 ...

For those who want a different design aesthetic, color capping may be the way to go. According to designers, it's a trend ready to take off in 2026.

In Adobe After Effects, you can define complex color effects such as gradients by adjusting colors and opacity levels to your liking, and then applying them to shapes in your animations. You define ...

Some of the greatest features in Photoshop are the text, object, and image effects such as Textures, Patterns, Gradients, and Styles. Styles are those amazing special effects that you see rolling ...

The ability to make custom patterns is quite helpful but learning how to make patterns that repeat seamlessly in Illustrator makes it even better. Patterns that will show where the edges repeat may ...

Two years ago in our MacStories Weekly newsletter for Club MacStories members, I shared a shortcut that enabled creating wallpapers for iPhone and iPad featuring solid colors or gradients of your ...