1. Your beginning sprite from the Gradient Tricks tutorial should look similar to the one pictured below. We are now ready to add an edge to the Stubby's Gator Farm sprite.

2. With the Stubby's Gator Farm sprite enabled, click the Effects tool button located on the left hand side of your Image Composer screen. (Pictured below to the left). The Effects toolbox appears. Scroll to Edge and then click it as indicated below in the right hand picture.

3. Click the Details tab that appears when you click the Edge icon. Set the Thickness to 1 by either clicking the up or down arrows until 1 appears in the box, or by highlighting the number and then entering 1. Set the color by clicking on the square located to the right of the word Color. The Color Picker dialog box appears. Choose black. RGB values: R:0, G:0, B:0. Enter those values as described in Gradient tricks.

4. Set the Opacity slider to 100 if it is not already set there by default. Set the Opacity value by either clicking the up or down arrows until 100 appears in the box, or by highlighting the number and then entering 100. Click Apply.

5.  The Stubby's Gator Farm sprite should be similar to the representation pictured below.

Menu Tip: Clicking Edit, Undo does the same exact operation as Ctrl + z.