Why doesn't shape gradient fill work properly?

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Whether it is two colors or a color and transparency, what the gradient slider is showing seems to happen only between the middle of the shape and a bit to the right side. Is there some kind of range selection that I'm missing?

I would post other pics, but I get a "forbidden" error message.

Thanks for any help.

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fleshmanzCorrect answer

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Hey man after hours of trying to find the handles on the gradient your solution wasn't that easy to find.

For anyone who CANNOT see the handles I managed to figure it out.

Solution: View > Show Layer Controls

I have no idea why that is even allowed to be turned off, just wasted an hour of my life trying to find one simple little option.

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Simon24331031jl0d

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If you click on the shape, you can toggle the handles to expand the area of the gradient

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Que38555536ro1r

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This is it, thanks!

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fredsprinkle

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I beleive this is an incomplete answer, as it is still often almost impossible to "rotate" the orientation of the gradient using the tools given. The expected "handles" would let a user rotate the gradient to whatever angle they would like. Other AE gradient tools have this, as does Ai.

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Milo-Poland

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Yeah I have start and stop point properly set... and yet, the gradient has a long start, long end, and little in the middle, I have gradients points at 0, 33, 66, 100% of the width and yet it looks like 0, 45, 55, 100... totally uneven distribution.

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imeilfx

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AE works little bit different than Ps or Ai so to properly edit gradients in AE shapes you have to use window that you used and also Start and End points of your gradient in your layer shape fill settings - shown on my screen on the left hand side.

Is that what you were looking for? If not please claryfy it for me and maby I will be able to help.