Color Wheel
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- flashbender0
a really complicated gradient mesh?
Or playing with opacity?
a lot of trial and error?
- Spookytim0
I think you need a circle, divided by 6 to make 6 pie pieces. Make them gradiate respectively from Blue to Magenta, Magenta to Red, Red to yellow, Yellow to green, Green to Cyan, Cyan to blue... and arrange them as a ful circle.
Then clonecopy them all down to about 5% of the original size, ensuring the central points still align. make all the colours 5% of their original strength, then do a blend from each big piece of pie to its coreesponding small piece of pie. Voila! Duck a l'orange.
You're welcome.
- < or use blends like the Spooskster said. That makes the most sense.flashbender
- Pissed him off and he turned into a design ninja. Noted.blaw
- ninjasavant0
What spooky said, or you could do it in Photoshop with a circle shape layer and do a gradient overlay effect set to "angle" with the spectrum gradient then place it in Illustrator.
- epigraph0
haven't tried this, but I'm 99% sure it will work. Make a rectangle with the appropriate linear gradients....then make it a brush. The apply it to the circle as a brush and adjust the stroke size until it looks right.
- epigraph0
yep, that works, but go to the bottom of this page to learn how to make a gradient into an art brush.
- bulletfactory0
there's a trick to it - this came up here about a year ago, but I can't remember who explained how to do it; BonSeff maybe? -anyway - i THINK the basic steps were:
create a gradient that steps through the color wheel (this may have be done in 2 halves.
draw a rectangle and fill it with the created gradient
then apply a arc warp effect 100%
that may or may not work.- oops - you'll have to expand the fill before the warp effectbulletfactory
- bulletfactory0
epigraphs way probably works better
- ian000
Cheers everyone. I'll tackle this after lunch and let ya'll know.
- epigraph0
make sure you when you make your initial linear gradient, that you start and end with the same color, and make them 1/2 size, so when it wraps and the ends meet it is seamless
good luck!
- 5timuli0
Make a square document in PS > Gradient tool (linear spectrum gradient) > Polar Co-ordinates > Radial Gradient (white-transparent)
- 5timuli0
Or, ten times easier, use an Angle Gradient to save using Polar Co-ordinates.
- ninjasavant0
- You forgot the White-Transparent gradient from the center of the wheel.5timuli
- ninjasavant0
- mess around with the blend mode for shits and giggles, some neat results.ninjasavant
- Beeeyoootiful :)5timuli
- Amicus0
eric_nord - in illustrator draw a small circle and a large circle... blend with the amount of rings you want. Draw a horizontal line from one edge to the other of the circle. Duplicate and rotate this line 10º each time until you have 36 segments. Bust apart the shapes using the pathfinder divide tool. get to colouring. will take about 30mins or so. The math for the colours is pretty simple.
- I am glad you took the time to say that because I didnt.FredMcWoozy
- eric_nord0
OK, that's a good vector solution, but it won't quite yield the same result. You can click on the image and see the details. Each segment is a gradient, not a single color. And the person who made this said Photoshop was used.
It seems to involve (3) layers.
1. Angle gradient
2. Circles emanating
3. Slices of pieI understand how to make the angle gradient. But #2 and #3 elude me.
Thanks for looking into this!
- thatboyneave0
I think the gradients are an optical illusion caused by the contrast of the adjacent colours — get your eyedropper out and see for yourself. If you used Amicus’s solution you should get the result you want.
- and if not, how hard is it to add a little gradient to each box instead of a solid fill?Amicus