Gimp 2.10 gradient7/27/2023 ![]() Looks pretty simple, doesn’t it? Well, right-click somewhere in that gradient and you’ll see this: I left mine at ‘Untitled’ for this part of the tutorial. To start, check ‘Instant update’ so all changes you make to your new gradient are immediately shown, and give it a name. Now click New, and you’ll be shown the actual gradient editor. FG ( Foreground Colour ) to BG ( Background Colour ) ( RGB ) means that the gradient will have whatever colours you set as fore- and Before you click on ‘New’, go back to the gradient window itself and select the gradient I’ve highlighted below. The options are, in order: Edit – New – Duplicate – Trash – Refresh. ![]() Since we’ll be creating a new gradient, our interest lies in the option buttons at the bottom of the gradient editor window: There are several gradients already available for you. ![]() Open the Gimp’s gradient editor by clicking on the appropriate tool tab: Gimp’s gradient editor is a lot different than the editors of PS or PSP, and if you’ve ever worked with either PS or PSP, throw what you know about editing gradients out of the next window, please. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to the fun part of making actual gradients. Gimp will give you a prompt to restart the program for the changes to take effect, so shut down and then restart Gimp. Mark your personal folder as writable, as I did above, and click OK. Once you found your personal gradient folder, click OK, and you’ll be returned to the Preferences menu:Īs you can see, there are now two folders, the Gimp default folder, and your personal folder. Your personal gradient folder should be at the top of the list, like mine is in the screenshot above. You find this folder by clicking on in the left-hand menu, then, on the right-hand menu, going through Program Files > Gimp > share > gimp > 2.0 >gradients. use the new menu that pops up to navigate to the folder you just created: in the Preferences tab of Gimp, click the button with the three ellipses ‘.’ next to the empty input field on the right. Call it ‘my gradients’ or something like that. go to C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\gradients and create a new folder in there. To create your own gradients folder and make it writable: Whatever you do, you have to make one or more folders in here writable, otherwise any and all custom gradients you create will be gone once you shut Gimp down. Of course, you can also create a folder anywhere in My Documents, but for the sake of simplicity, I’ll stick to the Gimp gradient folder. You can create a new folder inside the default gradients folder, make it writable, and thus keep your custom gradients and Gimp’s default gradients separate. You can select ‘writable’ next to the default gradients folder, meaning that all custom gradients you create will be saved to Gimp’s default folder in C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\gradients, In the Preferences menu, click on Folders and then, Gradients: We start by opening Gimp and, from the File Menu, selecting the Preferences: The crux of the matter lies with a folder path, the main thing you need if you want to create and save custom gradients in Gimp.ġ. I’m not sure if it will work for lower versions, but you can always try. This tutorial was written for the newest version of The Gimp, Gimp 2.2.10.
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