Gradients galore is now in my plugin pack here:
Red ochre plugin pack
The new version is moveable and has more shape options too.
If you have a .dll in the Effects folder called 'Gradientsgaloremoveable' you can delete it.
Firstly I would like to thank BoltBait for his encouragement to use HSV gradients and dithering in this plug-in.
And also for the work he has put into maintaining codelab and its tutorials, without which I wouldn't be able
to write plug-ins at all!
So what's wrong with the built in gradient tool?
Absoloutly nothing! - however, it can be a bit fiddly to line up a perfectly perpendicular gradient over the full length
of the canvas - and plugins have the wonderful ability to 'remember' their last settings too (ideal for repeated tasks).
This plug-in produces a wide variety of gradient effects, with:-
choice of shapes, to act as 'vignette' type filters; ellipse, good old 'squirkle', diamond etc.
choice of direct transition methods; linear,cosine & sinh.
variable dithering (I've left a large range here because I like some of the extreme effects especially if zoom or motion blur is used afterwards). I've found normal smooth dithering is achieved around a value less than 15.
HSV rainbows, clockwise and anti clockwise.
my own BGR spectra, (6 variants). These can give some interesting tertiary colour spectra, (try grey to grey).
an ability to write on objects only, (quick way to do rainbow text).
sliders to set start and end transparency, (useful for 'filter' layers).
swap colours.
use the source image as the primary color,(useful for transparency gradients).
angle slider (rotation around canvas centre).
It works well inside selections and the gradients can be rotated too.
Pictures speak louder than words, so I hope the screen shots help.
Any feed back appreciated - I haven't put this in my pack yet so if anything needs changing please let me know.
Have fun with this and post any interesting creations here - Enjoy!
