![]() Duplicate said rectangle (select item, Ctrl+D).Ģ. What you *could* try is the following (essentially what druban suggested):ġ. If you are thinking of having a third "handle" that would be entirely independent of the other two, of course this would be quite different, not an ellipse, certainly not a quadratic (2nd degree), and something to give the SVG developers a bit of a nightmare. You could describe the ellipse by establishing another angle (other than 90) for the second arm, but it would still be an ellipse, just with a needlessly more complicated calculation. The reason for having two arms is to describe the shape of the ellipse, in other words, the length of the short arm specifies the minor axis, the other arm the major axis. in effect, you only have one set of nodes that describe colour, although they are, for convenience, duplicated on each arm. the same gradient nodes are on each axis of the radial gradients. Click and drag within the fill moves the whole gradient (provided you don't click and drag on a specific gradient control) vs our creating a new one.Brynn wrote:What would happen if we could take a radial gradient, and move one of the handles to some angle besides 90 degrees to the other? That would be Awesome!Īlthough it sounds like it might be something other than what we have now, in fact it would be no different.Note, if you select a stop and bring up the color ring on another stop, it will change the color of the selected stop (it feels awkward since it's not where you're visually focused). Pressing Alt when clicking a stop is what brings up the color chooser (right where your mouse is).The very obvious direction indicator pointing off the end stop of the gradient.Single click to delete a gradient stop (click on the X/delete tag that is attached to each stop).Single click to add a new gradient stop.Conical gradients can be achieved with meshes, as well as "advanced linear" and "advanced radial" gradients which you can see in the following video (note, some visual transforms may not be achievable or otherwise "easy" to achieve).Ī gradient editing video from Autodesk Sketchbook Designer demonstrates the type of advanced "warping" and such that could be applied: Youtube videoĪside from the transformations that can be applied to linear and radial gradients (see video above), some very nice usability perks for their gradient controls are as follows: Think of mesh editing as the real power-user/technical way to edit them. A key to advanced gradients is that the regular mesh controls do not need to be visible for "other" advanced gradients. ![]() GIMP 2.8 (this shows only when creating initially):Īdobe Illustrator (not hovering over gradient controls):Īdobe Illustrator (while hovering over gradient controls):Īdvanced gradients, powered by gradient meshes will empower users to achieve visual effects not easily doable currently. In addition to these images which show various controls there is a video in the next section which shows some very nice UX in action. ![]() While ours has served us well, it's not exactly the best UX. ![]() First off, here are a few different on-canvas gradient controls from different applications. ![]()
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