can't adjust feathering of linear gradient

Question

It's supposed to be possible to adjust the feathering of a linear gradient by hovering the mouse over the outer line until the cursor changes to a double-headed arrow. That never happens on either of my computers. Instead, the cursor turns to the hand symbol, and moving it makes the entire gradient larger or smaller. I doubt this has anything to do with the specific computer, as I get the identical performance on a Dell laptop and a Lenovo P3 "Tiny" desktop.

Anyone know how to get this to work?

johnrellis · Answer

"It's supposed to be possible to adjust the feathering of a linear gradient by hovering the mouse over the outer line until the cursor changes to a double-headed arrow." It works differently. Dragging the red dot on the inner line or the white dot on the outer line makes the feathering wider or narrower.  Dragging the black square moves the the inner and outer lines in tandem.  Dragging the white dot farthest from the black square rotates the gradient edge (showing a double-headed arrow), as does dragging the middle line.  See the attached screen recording. (You have to view this post in your Web browser to see the attachment, and you have to click the attachment, then click the download button, then open the downloaded video on your computer -- forum previewing of attachments is currently broken.) If you're seeing something different, attach a full-resolution screen recording (not a phone video) of what you see:https://www.descript.com/blog/article/how-to-screen-record-on-windows

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