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I want to make a color fade so it isn't the same boring color throughout the entire one. For example, like the blue titl bar at the top of ths topic. See how it goes from dark blue at the top and gets lighter towards the bottom? How do I do that in Jasc?

Geez, are you color blind? Anybody can tell that its red, not blue!!

Sorry, I couldn't resist saying that. I use SubRed, so its not blue for me.

The fading text thing your talking about... umm... maybe the main text the starting color, and then add different frames with the same words, but the words are different colors? Okay, I think I just confused myself...

This is done in Animation Shop, by the way...

I think you're talking about a gradient. I don't know how this works in PSP, but in Photoshop there's a gradient tool, and you just set the colors you want to fade into each other.

I've found out, that you can do this in Powerpoint too! If you know what fill effects are, and what your planning to do with it, it's extremely simple.

Create a new presentation, and apply and background color. Search for the tab that says more options and/or fill effects, and click it. Choose from the dropdown list "Two Colors" or something of that variant, and select your two colors, and the direction in which they will go. Then hit ok, as many times as there is an ok button. Then file save as, and scroll down in the drop down list to jpg, and save it as a jpg, instead of a presentation.

The above is a very basic, and very simple way to stimulate that effect, although I do recommend using Photoshop for this, as there is one tool, and it is extrememly simple. Even though Photoshop costs roughly around $500 US (more or less, I didn't google the price).

Or you could take a screen shot instead of saving. This works with Microsoft Word as well- follow all of the steps Knives said except for opening up the color menu- click the 'format' tab, then 'background' and then follow her steps.

=D Yup, what you're talking about is a gradient.
In PSP (i'm working with PSP 7, should be similar in other versions), select the floodfill tool, now go to the colour bar on the right, select the foreground colour to one shade, and the background colour to a different shade.
Click on the top (foreground) colour, and a little bar will pop up with four options, paintbrush, gradient, pattern, and disable, in that order. Choose gradient.
Now double click on the foreground colour box, and a new window will open. There will be a box on the left showing your selected gradient, with an arrow next to it, click the arrow to open up the menu. Go through the list, and select the first gradient (#1 Foreground-Background).
On the right, you have the option to choose the style for the gradient, choose the first one (Linear gradient). In the middle you'll have number choices, set it to 0 repeats, and set the angle to 0, 90, 180, or 270 for straight gradients in either direction, or somewhere in between for a different look. You can also click and drag the line in the middle of the gradient preview window on the left to change the angle.
Click OK, and now you can flood fill your selection with the gradient. You can change the foreground and background colours to create different looks.