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 Note: Move the
center circle to change
the center of the
gradient; drag the arrow
circle to rotate the
gradient; or drag the
arrow in the square to
stretch the gradient.
5 Drag the round handle on the corner of the bounding box to rotate the gradient
180 degrees so the gradient fades from dark tan to the left to white to light tan
on the right. Drag the square handle on the side of the bounding box inward to
make the gradient tighter.
The coffee cup now has more realism because the shadows and highlights make
it appear that the front surface is convex and the back surface is concave.
adding a bitmap fill
You’ll make this cup of coffee a little fancier by adding a frothy layer of cream.
A JPEG image of foam will be used as a bitmap fill.
1 Select the top surface of the coffee with the Selection tool.
2 Open the Color panel (Window > Color).
3 Select Bitmap fill.
4 In the Import to Library dialog box, navigate to the
coffeecream.jpg file in the Lesson02/02Start folder.
 Note: You can
also use the Gradient
Transform tool to
change the way a
bitmap fill is applied.
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5 Select the coffeecream.jpg file and click Open.
The top surface of the coffee fills with the foam image.
The cup of coffee is complete! Rename the layer
containing your completed drawing coffee cup. All
that’s left to do is to add some bubbles and hot steam.
Working with Graphics