Detailed gradients
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- leewilson78
Hi all,
I have a photoshop file that has detailed gradients, what I mean by this is that when editing the gradient from the layer style menu, there seems to be color stops that are very close to each other, it is very difficult to edit the one at the bottom of the stacking order. I have no idea how the original designer managed to create such detailed gradients.
Is there an easier way to open up the file and edit these color stops, maybe access to the raw code for the file or something?
Appreciate any help.
Thanks
- Jnr_Madison0
Do you mean banding?
- brandelec0
how large is the image? is recreating it an option?
- inkpink0
edit raw gradient code? my head just exploded.
- acrossthesea0
Hm, I wonder if there's a hotkey or even "tab" might manually advance focus so you can get to the little gradient swatch boxes that are being overlapped.
- fyoucher10
He's talking about the little arrow type thingy's in the gradient inspector. Can't you just drag the corner of the preview window and expand everything? That way you get more space in between each stop...
- brandelec0
^ yup, you can maximize the dialog window
- ********0
maybe the file was converted from another app? would it be worth removing the gradient completely and redoing it with fewer steps - or is the actual fade incredibly intricate?
- leewilson780
cheers for the help, I did a simple work around:
I manually spaced the gradients out using the color stop arror, taking a note of the location of each one before hand, once edited, I put them back, overlapping and all. The big downside is that you can't preview it whilst doing this, so trial and error really.
Not come across something like this before.