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Author:  Esper [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:41 am ]
Post subject:  [Challenge] make a gradient
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
www.youtube.com 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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Author:  molly [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Challenge] make a gradient
Thanks Esper, this person does some great tutorials.
Author:  Esper [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Challenge] make a gradient
i wanna see your gradient molly ;)
Author:  Chris F [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:32 am ]
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look into my eye.... :mrgreen:

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

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Author:  he4rty [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:58 am ]
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Are we allowed to use gradient scripts to help create it.
Author:  Esper [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:01 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Challenge] make a gradient
no :mrgreen:

just use the editor, pls ;)
Author:  he4rty [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:03 am ]
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You are so mean.
Author:  Esper [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:12 am ]
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you like that :hehe
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Author:  he4rty [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:26 am ]
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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.

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Here are the two gradients if you would like them

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Author:  2-ton [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:30 am ]
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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.

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Author:  Esper [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Challenge] make a gradient
@Chris: i have seen that eye before, but then again i have seen a lot of your stuff before i knew who you are...

he4rty wrote:
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 ?

2-ton wrote:
*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 !
Author:  2-ton [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:54 am ]
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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!
Author:  2-ton [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:58 am ]
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found it easier this time...practice works! Also learned yet another thing...that you can bring back the editor to see what you did!

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Author:  Esper [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:02 am ]
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yes, you can re-edit your own gradients
Author:  Esper [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:08 am ]
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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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Author:  he4rty [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:14 am ]
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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.
Author:  Esper [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:18 am ]
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he4rty wrote:
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
Author:  he4rty [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:25 am ]
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Esper wrote:
he4rty wrote:
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
Author:  Chris F [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:29 am ]
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Esper wrote:
@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 ???
Author:  Esper [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Challenge] make a gradient
Chris F wrote:
Esper wrote:
@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
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