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Affinity Designer : Add gradients to swatches panel palette tutorial



How to add gradients / current fill to the swatches panel in Affinity Designer - a quick video tutorial how to add them for future use (AD includes a limited range of gradients by default). Create a shape and fill that with a gradient via the fiil tool and swatches panel. Change the gradient fill by adding and removing and modify stops and then go to the move tool and keep the object selected. Go to the swatches panel and set the palette / category to gradients and then click the button adjacent to 'add current fill to palette'. Use this approach to create 100s of great gradients for future use in your projects
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