Help with Gradients

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carmen
Dec 30, 2007
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I really seem to struggle with what appears to me as complex gradients. As an example, please take a look at
http://members.shaw.ca/gradientline/gradhelp.htm

It would certainly help my skills as well as my webpages to learn how to make gradients such as these. They don’t appear to be as simple as just selecting a start color and end color and then selecting a series of pixels on which to apply. I’ve tried drop shadows with minimal success.

Is there a tutorial that someone can direct me to so that I can fully learn how to make these gradients.

Thank you
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ronviers
Dec 30, 2007
On Dec 30, 4:16 am, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:
I really seem to struggle with what appears to me as complex gradients. As an example, please take a look athttp://members.shaw.ca/gradientline/gradhelp.htm
It would certainly help my skills as well as my webpages to learn how to make gradients such as these. They don’t appear to be as simple as just selecting a start color and end color and then selecting a series of pixels on which to apply. I’ve tried drop shadows with minimal success.
Is there a tutorial that someone can direct me to so that I can fully learn how to make these gradients.

Thank you

Hi,
Maybe one of these will help. The first three are really basic and but the last one takes it a little further.

http://www.digitalmediadesigner.com/2004/03_mar/tutorials/p0 6nowj4.htm http://artist.tizag.com/photoshopTutorial/photoshopgradientt ool.php http://www.uwec.edu/help/PhotoshopCS2/gradtool_newstyles.htm http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/blcolororb1.htm

Good luck,
Ron
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KatWoman
Dec 31, 2007
"(( carmen ))" wrote in message
I really seem to struggle with what appears to me as complex gradients. As an example, please take a look at
http://members.shaw.ca/gradientline/gradhelp.htm

It would certainly help my skills as well as my webpages to learn how to make gradients such as these. They don’t appear to be as simple as just selecting a start color and end color and then selecting a series of pixels on which to apply. I’ve tried drop shadows with minimal success.
Is there a tutorial that someone can direct me to so that I can fully learn how to make these gradients.

Thank you
the picture you post appears to be a solid color shape with a drop shadow not a gradient at all
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Tacit
Dec 31, 2007
In article <heKdj.43903$>,
"\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:

I really seem to struggle with what appears to me as complex gradients. As an example, please take a look at
http://members.shaw.ca/gradientline/gradhelp.htm

Make a rectangular selection. Create a gradient. Make a new rectangular selection. Create another gradient.

Though the easier way to do the image you linked to is to create a very subtle gradient, then add a drop shadow. The bottom "gradient" is a drop shadow; you can create it with the gradiant tool or simply by using a Drop Shadow layer style.

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beccifarrell
Jan 3, 2008
On Dec 30 2007, 2:16 am, "\(\( carmen \)\)" wrote:
I really seem to struggle with what appears to me as complex gradients. As an example, please take a look athttp://members.shaw.ca/gradientline/gradhelp.htm
It would certainly help my skills as well as my webpages to learn how to make gradients such as these. They don’t appear to be as simple as just selecting a start color and end color and then selecting a series of pixels on which to apply. I’ve tried drop shadows with minimal success.
Is there a tutorial that someone can direct me to so that I can fully learn how to make these gradients.

Thank you

The posters are partially correct. This effect is created as a gradient within a shape then there is a drop shadow added. The whole image as used on a web page is most likely only a few pixels wide though then repeated as a background image to appear as wide as the container that it’s placed into, either the page width or just the width of the div tag in which it resides.

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