Color Wheel
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- eric_nord0
Here is a close-up.
And here is where I found this example...
http://www.psdgraphics.com/backg…
The Illustrator solution is a good one, but it has a few problems. First it won't look the same (see above example). Second, I'm not sure exactly what "math" I would be using on this.
I'm looking for an efficient method that I can repeat without doing 30 minutes of math. My goal is not to recreate, so much as it is to learn an efficient method.
- Haven’t you done 30 minutes of posting on here already?thatboyneave
- And it will look the same, run the eyedropper over this very image in photoshop, there is no gradient...thatboyneave
- yeseric_nord
- Amicus0
eric_nord.... once you've done this once the efficient thing to do is to copy and paste. If you do it in illustrator you can have it any size you like without a worry in the world.
you have the solution... now just go and do it!
- eric_nord0
Maybe you missed the part about me wanting to learn how to do this in Photoshop. This isn't for a job or a class. I'm simply trying to learn different ways to divide colors evenly, in BOTH Illustrator and Photoshop.
Also, you didn't answer my question about the color "math" in Illustrator. Do you mean copy the colors from the example, or do you mean actual math?
- either way works.... but all you have to do is work out the extreme colours and evenly divide the colours in between.Amicus
- eric_nord0
- What on earth IS your point?thatboyneave
- just pointing out the gradientseric_nord
- eric_nord0
A simple "I don't know how to do this in Photoshop" would suffice.
- thatboyneave0
For the third time now:
there are no gradients. Those are solid areas of colour.
Get your eyedropper tool out. Run them over the colours. Watch the RGB values in the info palette.
Only trying to help you out Mr. Grumpy Pants.
- Orbit0
eric, each of those individual squares is a flat colour not a gradient. I know it LOOKS like a gradient, but that's just optical relationships. The orange square appears to be more green on the edge that butts up to the deeper orange, and it looks to be more orange on the edge that butts up to the green. But its an optical illusion. Each of the panels/squares is in fact a totally flat colour.
Its a school era optical illusion. You must have been off sick that day.
- Orbit0
As for the question of how to do it in Photoshop, you are a nut-job if you think there is any merit to doing it exclusively in Photoshop because you would get infinitely better results drawing it up as vectors.
- thatboyneave0
That said, you could probably achieve something like that in photoshop using an angle gradient (describing back over the page) as a starting point.
Then posterise it, or save as a gif with a limited colour palette and no dithering.
- eric_nord0
I do concede that most of them are evenly colored. Initially, I had sampled in the purple area and by fluke I sampled the few segments that have a slight gradient. But most are indeed a single color. Guess I missed that class. Can we move on now?
Neave, thanks for the response. I have been working with posterize, but the problem is that it doesn't easily divide with the angle gradient. The default color spectrum gradient creates flat spots when I use it. It seems like what I need is to make my own color spectrum gradient, or figure out how to get rid of the flat spots in the deault color spectrum gradient.
- OR DRAW IT IN ILLUSTRATOR GOD DAMN IT MAN WONT YOU JUST LISTEN?Horp
- 7point340
"you could probably achieve something like that in photoshop using an angle gradient"
well, by that logic you could also lube up your grandmother with an emusion of vegetable oil and chocolate sauce and then proceed to go to town on her using a buttered wooden spoon, coconut shavings and an eye dropper filled with... filled...with... i, uh... hmmm
where was i going with this?
- Horp0
You seem to be expecting a piece of code (designed to simplify millions of richly varied colour value maps down to crude patterns of flat tone based on random geographical position and tolerance levels) to somehow know that you want a nicely segmented circle shape of concentric rings of lovely colour.
It just doesn't work that way. Why oh why can you not just listen to all the advice that has been provided on these two pages and just draw this thing in a vector app?
Just because someone told you it was done in Photoshop, doesn't mean it was, and it doesn't mean it can be either.
You are taking SO much time and putting SO much effort into finding a short-cut way of doing this that its insane. Its fucking insane.
Can you not see the fact that Photoshop just wont convert a load of gradiated colour into the nice symmetrical convenient mathematically perfect segmented patio of colour panels?
It just wont. For fuck's sale man, it JUST WONT.
- Horp0
Actually fuck it, why I am wasting my time trying to make yous ee sense...
Yeah, I think if you keep experimenting with that approach you'll definitely get there soon. Keep on going mate, don't give up.. rome wasn't built in a day, winners don't quit etc etc.
Post updates and let us know how you're getting on.
Okay then, see you, bye for now.
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- thank you, horp. i'm only trying to learn here, not take food off someone's plate.eric_nord
- Amicus0
Here's how to do it in photoshop...
Copy from Illustrator, paste and resize to requirements, Save as (or even Save for Web & Devices).... Voila
- scarabin0
seriously? this thread is still going?
how about trying shit out on your own instead of having us hold your hand every step of the way?
there have been dozens of different ways to do it listed in this thread