# Warm white rather than cool white in the fixture chooser

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**Created:** [December 3, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://vistaforum.chroma-q.com/t/warm-white-rather-than-cool-white-in-the-fixture-chooser/3122 "2023-12-03T13:29:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ithilome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Ithilome](https://vistaforum.chroma-q.com/u/Ithilome)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://vistaforum.chroma-q.com/t/warm-white-rather-than-cool-white-in-the-fixture-chooser/3122/1 "2023-12-03T13:29:30Z")

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Typically I’ll do a color fan from cool white to a color (like cool white to blue) across multiple fixtures. I found this to be pretty easy by selecting the fixtures, holding down ctrl and dragging a box in the features/color window (not sure what to call that). There was a request to use warm white instead of cool white. I was wondering if there’s a pretty easy way to do this? I’m hoping I’m missing something obvious

As a workaround I’ll manually select the colors of each fixture.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/chroma_q/original/2X/4/4d9f03b3e1283db507f8cf8c6e9d9a7112f607c4.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![drewTheTechy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@drewTheTechy](https://vistaforum.chroma-q.com/u/drewTheTechy)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://vistaforum.chroma-q.com/t/warm-white-rather-than-cool-white-in-the-fixture-chooser/3122/2 "2023-12-03T20:38:04Z")

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It’s not perfect, but I was able to re-create this idea with the RGB gradient sliders.

 ![Screenshot 2023-12-03 at 2.26.58 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/chroma_q/original/2X/0/0b3bf7a629c1541c81a91ff5c199057b50679a5f.png)

I think the best approach is to use the RGB sliders to create your gradient. So in this case, to go from blue to warm white, I need to fade from 100% blue & 40% green (giving me a light blue look) to 100% red, 95% green, & 60% blue (giving me a warm white color, since it’s white but with a little less blue compared to red/green).

The trick here is to understand how Vista does selection orders with gradients. To create a gradient, hold down command (mac) or control (windows) and drag the slider, you’ll get this light blue bar with handles on each end that you can adjust. Depending on the _direction_ that you drag when you first start, it will change the order.

So what you need to do is create the **blue** gradient in one direction, and then the **green** and **red** gradients _in the other direction_. This should get you the look you’re going for.

That being said, since I don’t have physical fixtures set up, I don’t know how it will actually look in real life. But with some careful adjustments I think you can get the look you’re going for. (And honestly, just manually setting the colors also works, especially if you only have a few fixtures. Sometimes your eyes will help you get better gradients than the computer will.)

Hope that helps!  
Drew