How do I remove a gradient section in CS6?

[Guest]

In both Photoshop and Illustrator, I am able to delete the selected part of a gradient simply by hitting the delete key. This seems to not work here, can someone tell me how to remove the aqua section from my gradient?

[groove25 · Accepted solution]

In your gradient editor, drag the undesired color stop away from the color ramp and drop it (once you see that it's disappeared).

To add a new color stop, click in the area just below the color ramp. To add a new opacity stop, click in the area above the color ramp.

[Guest]

Thank you! Is there a keyboard way to do it?

[groove25]

Boy, if there's a way to do that, it doesn't seem to be very easy. Is this an accessibility issue, or just preference?

Here's what I found: If you can select the color stop, its numeric position will appear in the location field below. From there, you can use the delete key to remove the stop/position.

But this often requires clicking on a color stop twice: once to reselect the original color (after the color picker appears), and then a second time to leave the color stop selected. That's more trouble than it's worth for me.

Incidentally, there was a Gradient command panel created for CS3 that offered slightly more in-depth gradient editing ability. Not necessarily what you need here; I just thought I'd mention it.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/gradient_panel.html

[Guest]

It's a little bit of both.

I work from a 17" Laptop, so most times I keep my hands on the keyboard and avoid the trackpad due to its impercision. I can use my mouse (Nice little Logitech Performace MX, love it) if I have a nice surface but I usually don't if I'm on the move. (Which is only 30% of my free time anyway, I can work on other things durring that time).

Preferance wise, I try to keep my shortcuts mostly consitent across adobe software. It's worked fine for PS and Illustrator, but now that I'm branching out into After Affects and Fireworks, it's harder haha.

[groove25]

Have you tried using the Tab key to navigate within the Gradient panel (via keyboard focus)? On my setup, the Tab key shuttles between gradient type and angle only. Once a color stop has been selected manually, then the position field is included in this—but there's still no way to navigate between the different stops along the color ramp, as far as I can tell.

Just I thought I'd mention this, in case your setup responds differently.

[Guest]

That works well haha. It's not idea but It works

Thank you!