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- bulletfactory0
epigraphs way probably works better
- 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!
- ian000
Cheers everyone. I'll tackle this after lunch and let ya'll know.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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!