Questions tagged [gradient]

Questions about multiple colors or channels gradually blended together. A rainbow is an example of a natural gradient. Questions about using gradients in graphic design may be more suited to graphicdesign.stackexchange.com. Questions about using gradients in programming and web development are off topic and should be asked on stackoverflow.com.

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Make one side of image fade to transparent with GIMP?

For use in some of my presentation slides, I hope to edit some of my images with The GIMP so that one (or more) side(s) will fade into transparency. How do I do this in GIMP?
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Why don't two 50% opacity layers of the same color make the solid color in Photoshop?

I am trying to create a gradient that when flipped and overlayed on itself will show a solid color. I thought I would make it with a regular solid-to-transparent gradient on Photoshop, and save it as ...
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Batch-processing images of documents to look like a fax

Let's say I have a photo or scan of a text document, possibly with some low-contrast watermark background. If it is a photo, in addition to the watermark there will be brightness gradients from the ...
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Photoshop gradients just got ugly

Terrible news! As of yesterday, all of my gradients in Photoshop started turning ugly, with horrible color banding like this: My problem seems to be isolated to Photoshop, but it’s only happened in ...
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How do I make a gradient color background fill in GIMP?

I need to make a small image with a gradient color background. How can I do that in GIMP?
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transparent gradients with graphicsmagick

I'm trying to create a gradient that goes from transparent to some color. With imageMagick you can do that with (taken from the documentation): convert -size 100x100 gradient:none-firebrick ...
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Can I create a multi-color cell without a gradient in Excel?

I want to apply two colors to one cell and separate them diagonally. I know that there is a function to add gradients in Excel, but I haven't found a way to set the strength of the color stop.
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How to change Firefox 4 full screen title bar gradient

Is it possible to change this gradient to something else (preferably a solid color or the default gradual horizontal fade)? Using Firefox 4.0 on Windows-XP-x86-Pro-SP3.
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Add noise to gradient photoshop

Does anyone know how to add noise to a gradient on photoshop cs3 ?
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Changing image color

I have an image of a gradient. It's in a dull grey, and I would like to shift the enter thing to a bluer color without changing any of its other properties. What's an easy way to do this? I have ...
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Adding multiple gradients to object in Adobe Illustrator

I have an object which is a path (a nose to be specific). Now I want both a linear gradient and a radial gradient to be added to the object. So these must be separate gradient objects I guess, and I ...
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Transpose in gradient layer

Why is tranposes visible in a gradient in Photoshop? How can you get rid of the transposes.. Does it have something to do with the color depth? The optimized PNG is in 24 bit Look in the dark grey ...
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Gradient fill text effects

How to display gradient fill text without using image in html.
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Excel stacked bar chart - fill color based on cell value from gradient

Hey all you chart lovers, I have searched around for a solution but haven't found anything applicable. Here is my situation. I am using Excel to make a timeline of country leaders for several ...
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Illustrator CS4 Gradient Following a Path

I'm trying to draw a power cable in illustrator, I want the cable to have one side dark and the other light with a gradient in the middle, because the cable has curved corners it won't work the usual ...
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Illustrator CS6 Gradient in Logo

I am looking to create an effect similar to this: Is it even a gradient or some other effect. I'm not used to Illustrator, but require a vector based logo. I cannot seem to figure out the gradient ...
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Swapping color gradients with Gimp

I have a logo that I would like to use on a shirt that has a black to white gradient throughout the logo. Since the shirt may end up being blue and the color printed on the shirt yellow, I want to ...
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Photoshop CS tool display problem

I'm using Photoshop CS and can't seem to display the top-upper-left tool highlighted in red in the image below: Can anyone explain how I can display this tool?
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Why there are some black lines in gradient image?

I have tried some ways to test the gradient image such as look at the gradient testing website, for example http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gradient.php and https://www.eizo.be/monitor-test/, use html + ...
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How to pick the gradient color?

I know little bit about color picking software and web based programs. But I want to pick the color and exact gradient pattern. Is it possible to do so ? For example I want the exact gradient for my ...
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SVG gradient does not yield correct start and end colours

I have a linear gradient from #F1BC6D to #EA5D49. But the rendered colours are not close to these start and stop values. Why? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <svg ...
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Setting a gradient's angle in Photoshop

I want to create a curl effect on page. I am not able to align gradient with my curl. Please check the attached screenshot to see the settings. In the curl see the white line of gradient its on angle ...
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Rectangular Gradient in Illustrator

I'm trying to recreate something like this: I only have the GIF files for a set of these buttons. Now I need additional buttons with different words and the same gradient effect. Can someone ...
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Excel conditional formatting gradient text color

I am familiar with the conditional formatting in excel where you can fill the background of a range of cells with gradient colors according to their value. You can either choose a 2-color scale or a 3-...
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