Hi,
Would it be possible for Inkscpae to have gradient fill interface the one on photoshop or illustrator, esp. for editing the gradient?
Thanks
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On 11/18/05, gri3f on <gri3fon@...12...> wrote:
Hi,
Would it be possible for Inkscpae to have gradient fill interface the one on photoshop or illustrator, esp. for editing the gradient?
Can you please be more specific?
Personally, I find Illustrator's gradient handling a disaster. Inkscape is orders of magnitude more usable in this area. But maybe I'm missing something.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
we can control the next color we're going to use or insert, so we'll see a bar of our currrent gradient and we can adjust the property of the opacity, color and stop from the interface - doh sorry for my poor english.
bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote: On 11/18/05, gri3f on wrote:
Hi,
Would it be possible for Inkscpae to have gradient fill interface the one on photoshop or illustrator, esp. for editing the gradient?
Can you please be more specific?
Personally, I find Illustrator's gradient handling a disaster. Inkscape is orders of magnitude more usable in this area. But maybe I'm missing something.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
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On 11/18/05, gri3f on <gri3fon@...12...> wrote:
we can control the next color we're going to use or insert, so we'll see a bar of our currrent gradient and we can adjust the property of the opacity, color and stop from the interface - doh sorry for my poor english.
All this is easy with Gradient tool in Inkscape. Totally easy and on-canvas for two-stop gradients, a bit more clumsy but still easy for multistop. Please be more specific in your description.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On 11/18/05, Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...446...> wrote:
And unrelated to this, I haven't managed to get accustomed to the context toolbar for the gradient tool. The fact that requires to set-up gradient properties _before_ making an action and giving little feedback may be the reason.
Additionally, there seems to be no way to choose reflections type via context toolbar, so it's still needed to use old fill'n'stroke palette.
Alexandre
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 05:55 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On 11/18/05, gri3f on <gri3fon@...12...> wrote:
we can control the next color we're going to use or insert, so we'll see a bar of our currrent gradient and we can adjust the property of the opacity, color and stop from the interface - doh sorry for my poor english.
All this is easy with Gradient tool in Inkscape. Totally easy and on-canvas for two-stop gradients, a bit more clumsy but still easy for multistop. Please be more specific in your description.
Hi Bulia & dreamteam,
Two things I'm missing in my workflow are very much related to each other. For multi-stop gradients, I'd like to be able to either DnD or use the dropper tool to pick colors for each step. And similarly being able to define offsets, preferably directly on the canvas, would be really rad. Of course this brings up my previous suggestion of dropping the on-canvas gradient controls for the node tool as things will get messy. It is really fast to change context/tools with shortcuts. Having gradient tool edit gradients and node tool paths is natural to me. Gradinets already get in my way editing shapes and with more gradient stop nodes, it sure would become hard.
And unrelated to this, I haven't managed to get accustomed to the context toolbar for the gradient tool. The fact that requires to set-up gradient properties _before_ making an action and giving little feedback may be the reason. Everything else seems to work on selections. Select an object, define its properties. Select an object, tweak shape with the node tool.
So if there's some plans on dropping the old way of dealing with gradients I'd rather not see that happen ;) Keep up the great work.
cheers
Jakub Steiner wrote:
Two things I'm missing in my workflow are very much related to each other. For multi-stop gradients, I'd like to be able to either DnD or use the dropper tool to pick colors for each step. And similarly being able to define offsets, preferably directly on the canvas, would be really rad.
Agreed... those would be awesome. It's weird, but I am compelled to select a gradient handle and use the dropper to try and change that color... and for some reason I just can't break myself of thinking it should work like that.
Of course this brings up my previous suggestion of dropping the on-canvas gradient controls for the node tool as things will get messy. It is really fast to change context/tools with shortcuts. Having gradient tool edit gradients and node tool paths is natural to me. Gradinets already get in my way editing shapes and with more gradient stop nodes, it sure would become hard.
See, but for me, depending on what I'm working on it can be quite useful sometimes. The great thing is that you can double-click on any tool (node tool for example) to bring up it's preferences to disable that gradient editing (a check box).
And unrelated to this, I haven't managed to get accustomed to the context toolbar for the gradient tool. The fact that requires to set-up gradient properties _before_ making an action and giving little feedback may be the reason. Everything else seems to work on selections. Select an object, define its properties. Select an object, tweak shape with the node tool.
Glad to know I'm not the only one that struggles with that toolbar.
-Josh
On 11/18/05, Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...446...> wrote:
Two things I'm missing in my workflow are very much related to each other. For multi-stop gradients, I'd like to be able to either DnD or use the dropper tool to pick colors for each step. And similarly being able to define offsets, preferably directly on the canvas, would be really rad.
Sure. Always on the TODO.
Of course this brings up my previous suggestion of dropping the on-canvas gradient controls for the node tool as things will get messy.
Why "drop" when you can just disable them in node tool prefs?
And unrelated to this, I haven't managed to get accustomed to the context toolbar for the gradient tool. The fact that requires to set-up gradient properties _before_ making an action and giving little feedback may be the reason. Everything else seems to work on selections. Select an object, define its properties. Select an object, tweak shape with the node tool.
OK, OK, I'm convinced (by you and others). Just don't have time to rework it. Will do some day.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On 11/18/05, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...155...> wrote:
Additionally, there seems to be no way to choose reflections type via context toolbar, so it's still needed to use old fill'n'stroke palette.
Same thing - always been on the TODO, will do some day.
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