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Change gradient colors in Inkscape
With the gradient tool selected (Ctrl+F1) select the start/end of the gradient and choose a desired color from the palette or the Fill&Stroke dialogue.
Double clicking on the gradient (blue line) ...
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SVG gradient implementation
Yes and no.
It's possible to create a gradient mesh in Inkscape, and save it out as an SVG. However the SVG standards used in browsers don't support gradient meshes yet. This might change in the ...
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Change gradient colors in Inkscape
Another approach is, when the gradient tool is selected and your blue line visible, to click on the starting point, the small circle, and select a color, and into the endpoint, the square, and select ...
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How to create this kind of wave gradient effect
You could use a blend.
Here's the blend I made in outline mode. I made one ellipse and duplicated them, stretched some and squished others making sure they were all equidistant. I edited the spine ...
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How to create an overlapping circle shape with the same gradient
Here's one method:
Create a circle, and select the Anchor at the 3 o'clock position, and hit the Cut Path button
Add a thick stroke, no fill, set rounded endcaps
Add a gradient along the stroke
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Creating asymetrical gradients
The easiest way to do this is create massive circles of your chosen colors, as solids, and then apply VERY strong blurs to the image, as an effect, and move, scale and change colors of the underlying ...
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Create swatches from gradient
There's no way of doing it fully automatically in Illustrator, although I suppose it could be scripted if you feel so inclined, but there is a way of doing it with a few extra clicks!
You could add ...
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Illustrator: How to create realistic reflective gold surface?
I am naming these chapters starting with V as the second part of this post.
The first part has renders of 3D models, the second half of the post has vector based images.
Chapter V. Illustration
One ...
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how do I make a gradient background in Figma?
1) You first create a rectangle of your choice color and then spread it all over the screen and then
2) Then select that rectangle and click on Fill option and then
3) And then from the drop-down at ...
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In Inkscape, how to create a gradient between color A and color B instead of color A and transparent?
(Inkscape v0.92) Start Figure 1:
(Figure 2): Let's say we want that blue circle to transition from blue to yellow, but not transparent. First you select the gradient tool, then you drag your mouse ...
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How do I feather the edges of a geographic border in Inkscape?
If a blur effect is acceptable, duplicate the outline of the state, fill the shape with dark green, send to the bottom of the stack, apply a blur.
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Create a 3D cone in Illustrator with rainbow colors
I can suggest a method to make the cone, but I think the gradients will probably have to be created manually. I can't really think of a quick way of doing them. Sorry about that.
Anyway, here goes:
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combining two panorama pictures together to remove the light sources in both
One possible method to do this would be to use Photoshop's Image Statistics script to stack the images.
Before you start, make sure both images are separate files, located in the same folder.
Click ...
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How to create random pixel art pattern in GIMP?
There's an easier way
Create a new image with as many pixels as you need.
Choose a new foreground colour, i.e. a green colour for the grass, and fill the canvas with it using Edit > Fill with FG ...
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Illustrator cc: gradient tool — How to take color from the image?
I had a hard time understanding the proposed solution so I rewrote it.
If you have a selected object filled with a gradient and you want to use the eyedropper to update the colors of the gradient, ...
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Photoshop gradient overlay isn't transparent
Even though you have applied a black to transparent gradient, via the layer effects, to your top layer, I can see that the layer itself is still filled with white.
Set the fill of the top layer to 0%
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Illustrator: how to merge multiple gradients
One object can have multiple gradients as seen in the image 1 (below).
To add multiple gradients, open your appearances panel and duplicate the fill. Note that the second gradient has to have a ...
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How do I feather the edges of a geographic border in Inkscape?
If you'd prefer a fuzzy border inside the land's borders, rather than outside, try this...
Create your vector land shape and give it a fill colour and no stroke
Duplicate this land shape twice (press ...
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Illustrator: how to achieve a conical gradient effect
Create a circle.
Stroke it and make sure the stroke weight is the same as the circle diameter. A fill on the circle is not necessary for this purpose.
Apply a linear gradient to the stroke and hit ...
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How to specify the start & end position of a Linear Gradient?
The best you can do is utilize the Gradient Panel and location percentages. Illustrator does not offer any hard algorithmic method to input definitive values. Because gradients are sized based on ...
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How can I add stop point to linear gradient in inkscape?
Apply a gradient with the Gradient Tool to a shape/closed path. Then with the Gradient Tool still selected, double click on on the gradient line to add a stop, and choose a fill colour from the colour ...
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How to bend a gradient with Illustrator
Simply use a thick stroke as opposed to a shape, and apply a gradient to the stroke.
You can expand the gradient stroke afterwards, resulting in a gradient mesh object.
You can also stack multiple ...
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How do I get a smooth fade into black in Photoshop?
The problem in your original layers is that both photos are a bit away from each other. And masked area is a bit narrow. That's why your mask isn't working the way you want. It can still work if you ...
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How to find a maximum set of well separated color-gradients black-to-color?
OK the real answer is don't do it. Its not really possible to do this with very many colors. Finding singular colors that work is a significantly challenging thing, what your asking is even more ...
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Gradient stops for metallic cylinder effect
Not Inkscape specifically, but....
A couple more color stops helps convey "metal" more in my opinion. Having concave on top of convex can be visually confusing. I typically reverse the ...
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Gradient stops for metallic cylinder effect
Metallic look so that it also looks cylindrical and concave contains a difficult problem. Reflection from a polished surface is a distorted image of the environment. I'm afraid it doesn't get better ...
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How to do a freehand gradient
You probably want to use an angle gradient instead of a linear one.
You can do this both as a gradient overlay setting (for layer effects), and as a gradient fill setting (for vector shapes).
It ...
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GIMP: How to apply a mask to multiple layers?
Since Gimp 2.10, you can have masks on layer groups, so one solution is to put the layers in a group, and add a mask to the group:
However, in the general case, this may not give exactly the same ...
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