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Interesting questions Pete –
1. I think you are correct – I prefer it this way as it means that you don’t accidentally override a default.
2. They have gone. Before you load another gradient set, you need to hit the save button to save the ones that you have created as a new gradient set so that you can reload them at a later date. I think the preset manager can do this too.
3.I’ve never tried the gradient map with a transparent fill. (It’s a tool I use a lot – on greyscale images you can do anything that curves can do with a black/grey/white gradient map, as well as using it for sepia and other duotone/tritone effects)
What an interesting idea……except I can’t seem to get it to do anything – the gradient mapping seems to ignore the opacity stops in the gradient and only look at the colour (It would be very easy to create an adjustable luminosity based mask if it did work….what a pity.)
Susan S
1. I think you are correct – I prefer it this way as it means that you don’t accidentally override a default.
2. They have gone. Before you load another gradient set, you need to hit the save button to save the ones that you have created as a new gradient set so that you can reload them at a later date. I think the preset manager can do this too.
3.I’ve never tried the gradient map with a transparent fill. (It’s a tool I use a lot – on greyscale images you can do anything that curves can do with a black/grey/white gradient map, as well as using it for sepia and other duotone/tritone effects)
What an interesting idea……except I can’t seem to get it to do anything – the gradient mapping seems to ignore the opacity stops in the gradient and only look at the colour (It would be very easy to create an adjustable luminosity based mask if it did work….what a pity.)
Susan S
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