How to Make a Cylinder out of a Gradient

Basic shapes are good for collaging, because they can be used in many different ways to construct a more complicated picture. A cylinder is one useful basic shape… it can be a shower rod, or a cane, or a table leg, or a coffee cup.

The collaging tool on Muzy makes creating a shaded cylinder simple. All you need is a gradient, which you can make yourself or find premade on Muzy. By resizing a larger gradient, you can get a perfectly shaded area, without having to painstakingly make a consistent gradient over a small area. Here are the easy instructions to make a cylinder in Muzy, using an existing gradient. Read the rest of this entry »