No luck, I tried.....perhaps if you listed the steps in order, I can try it that way....doing a new layer did nothing for me....geeez. What I did was create the new page, do the line of text, make that text gradient using the "select by color" tool, then clicking on the text with it, then switching to the gradient tool and making it the gradient colors I wanted. When I first made the text, I click on "text to path" in the toolbox. Okay, I now have my gradient text in a line there. I tried to make it run on the curved path, it wouldn't respond. I deleted that text layer, made a new one without adding the gradient treatment. It was plain solid text.
Then I again did the bezier curve path I wanted (had started all over again). I then went to the layers menu, and selected the line of text, right-clicked selecting "text along path" and it linked to the curve. But, after that I could not make the text gradient shaded, the little "select by color" tool wouldn't work.
I just don't know what I am doing wrong....whether it's not right clicking when I should, or the sequence I am using.....it's so frustrating my eyes are bleeding at this point lol ....I don't know if the program is buggy, so I actually re-downloaded the 2.6, and I still have the same problem.....
So, any advice (other than "hang it up girl" ) would be appreciated ....thanks much.
~diane
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