[Challenge] make a gradient

[Esper]

so my dear buddies of GC, i challenge you to come up with the nicest gradient you can make

for all of those who need a crashcourse, i recommend this tutorial for the basics

Video from : www.youtube.com

and the description from the Gimp manual:
http://gimp.open-source-solution.org/ma ... ialog.html

Rules are:
post an object filled with your gradient and a screenshot of your gradient in editor mode

i will start with something basic, to get the ball rolling

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[molly]

Thanks Esper, this person does some great tutorials.

[Esper]

i wanna see your gradient molly

[Chris F]

look into my eye....

(i do not really love the gradient editor in gimp)

[he4rty]

Are we allowed to use gradient scripts to help create it.

[Esper]

no

just use the editor, pls

[he4rty]

You are so mean.

[Esper]

you like that

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[he4rty]

Very nice Esper, Anyways, here are two gradients that I made in 2.6 when I first had a play with the editor.

The gradients a called Fibernachi because both the colour hue and size of stripe where all based upon the fibernache number sequence.



Here are the two gradients if you would like them

[2-ton]

OK, you talked me into it...thanks, now I actually know how to use the gradient editor! It's probably a gradient already made somewhere, but I did make this by hand. The gradient is on the text, not the background...that one was already in my list
*edit...oops, forgot to take a pic of the gradient editor, my bad.

[Esper]

@Chris: i have seen that eye before, but then again i have seen a lot of your stuff before i knew who you are...

The gradients a called Fibernachi because both the colour hue and size of stripe where all based upon the fibernache number sequence.

how did you pull that off ?
holding a ruler against the screen ?

*edit...oops, forgot to take a pic of the gradient editor, my bad.

do you think you could add the screensot of the gradient editor ? i really wanna see it !

[2-ton]

there were 3 segments, red to white, white to white, white to blue. Fairly simple, but it let me learn the basics. I will re-open gimp and see if I can pull up the editor for that. My gimp is a bit different, so I had to fumble around to find the editor!

[2-ton]

found it easier this time...practice works! Also learned yet another thing...that you can bring back the editor to see what you did!

[Esper]

yes, you can re-edit your own gradients

[Esper]

here is an interesting problem, you always get a kind of focused beam-like middle, that pops out (here the white)
its very difficult to get rid of that...make it smoother....

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[he4rty]

From what I remember Esper the fibernachi sequence is the previous two digits added together to make the next number and goes :-

0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55

So the hues went :-

0 20 30 50 80 130 210 340

To get the spacing it was a case of adding the numbers

1 2 3 4 5 8 13 21 34 together which gave 78

Then the editor use the spacing 1.000 so divided 1000 by 78 which gave each space a value of 12 or .012

So hue colour 340 would require a space 34*.012 = 0.408

Hope that makes sense.

As to your focus beam light have you tried some of the different blending modes.

[Esper]

As to your focus beam light have you tried some of the different blending modes.

yes, just found that out, this very moment

in PS you have two little circles beneath every handle, which you can drag out to make a fine tuning to the gradient color

[he4rty]

As to your focus beam light have you tried some of the different blending modes.

yes, just found that out, this very moment

in PS you have two little circles beneath every handle, which you can drag out to make a fine tuning to the gradient color

To fine tune the best I have discovered is to zoom in to about 50:1 and this enables the arrows to be moved at intervals of 0.0001

[Chris F]

@Chris: i have seen that eye before, but then again i have seen a lot of your stuff before i knew who you are...

?? i don`t understand you ???

[Esper]

@Chris: i have seen that eye before, but then again i have seen a lot of your stuff before i knew who you are...

?? i don`t understand you ???

its really simple
i google a lot to find useful stuff and i stumbled over your work before
thats probably where i saw the eye gradient