On 11/4/10, Olivier BERTEN wrote: > * I don't see the point in Foreground/Background colors > <http://www.mail-archive.com/create@lists.freedesktop.org/msg01272.html> > ;-) I see even less the point in having gradients swatches defined with > Foreground/Background colors... This is a "feature" you can find in > Photoshop and Gimp gradients. For sure I don't see how it would be > useful in an exchange format...
Inkscape doesn't have FG/BG colors in gradients, even though we were criticized for that some months ago (the discussion was in inkscape-devel@) :) IMO, "start" and "end" are the best you can get really. FG/BG are just common conventions many people got used to. But even for gradients fg/bg and start/end don't have to make sense. If you look at Mandelbulber's Shaders tab, you'll see a kind of gradient that controls coloring of a 3D fractal. The concept of start and end is quite washed out there. > * I think the "segment" concept of Gimp isn't really interesting since > the position of a segment start has to be the same as the end of the > previous one, and in 99% of the cases, the color is the same too. For > the 1% left, you can create another stop at the same position. OTOH things like blending function and coloring type for segments in GIMP's gradients can be of use. > * Is there any free software dealing with noise gradients? Not that I know of. Noise gradients are entirely a Photoshop thing to the best of my knowledge. I have to admit though we haven't looked at any of Corel PSP's assets (mostly because the installer doesn't wish to work on wine out of box). Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create