Freelance web design - CHAPTER 9 ADVANCED DRAWING 377 Making Gradients
CHAPTER 9 ADVANCED DRAWING 377 Making Gradients You can make your own gradients, too, by using the Gradient Editor. The easiest way to learn the Gradient Editor is to edit an existing gradient. Select a gradient similar to your goal, duplicate it, then click Edit to get the Gradient Editor (Figure 9-51). You can also find it in the context menus of the Gradients dialog (right-click on any gradient in the list, and then select Edit to edit that gradient, or New to make a new one). Figure 9-51. The Gradient Editor Caution Make sure you duplicate an existing gradient before running the Gradient Editor. If you try to edit one of GIMP s built-in gradients, many functions in the dialog won t work because the gradient will be opened as read only. At the top of the Gradient Editor is the name (for a new gradient, Untitled ). You can change this to the name of your new gradient. Below the name is an image of the gradient as it currently looks, and below that, an area for range selection sliders (the blue-and-white bar with black-and-white triangles). In the range selection area, black triangles define segments. Each segment has two endpoint colors. White triangles represent the midpoints of ranges. The currently selected range is blue; the others are white.
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