Comments on: Gradient Web 2.0 Effects with GIMP

By: matt

matt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:43:05 +0000

Oh, one more thing, for the moon effect all you have to do is use the “SuperNova ” filter uner lights and shadow…

By: matt

matt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:38:58 +0000

got it, thanks! cool!

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:43 +0000

I never understood how to really apply the Gradients until I read this. Now I’m just geeking out with the Blend tool. Thanks a ton!

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:39:06 +0000

Oi Guilherme,
Eu tenho tentado ser detalhadas. Porções que eu preciso para adicionar mais passos para?

By: Guilherme Mattos

Guilherme Mattos — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:37:58 +0000

Seria melhor se você explicasse passo a passo.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:36:34 +0000

Ben,

Ok, I see what you’r doing. As to the second bit, I have no better way to do it. I’m a complete design novice and am just learning my way around GIMP. Thanks for the quick reply.

Tim

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:42:28 +0000

Hi Tim,
I see why there could be some confusion.
See the picture in the tutorial with the yellow dotted line? That is what the image looks like after the gradient has been drawn on. Now here’s the important part: When you change the black to transparent in that layer, you are affecting the entire layer and not just the gradient you have drawn. So when you make the layer transparent, you also are making the parts of the letters you blacked out transparent as well.
Now if what you were instead asking me, is whether this is a dumb way of doing it and whether an easier way might exist, then please let me know because it’s very possible that there is. This was my first time ever using GIMP and I was in a bit of a hurry, so I could see needing two steps here a bit fishy if it can be done in only one.

Thanks! - Ben

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:38:27 +0000

Am I missing something? In regards to the Moon Rock logo. If, for the 2nd gradient, you use a gradient going from black to transparent and then you color to alpha with black won’t you have effectively created a completely transparent gradient?

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:59:04 +0000

If the “Add Alpha Channel” option is not enabled then it probably means that there’s already an alpha channel for that layer. Just skip to the next step in the tutorial and you should be fine.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:24:53 +0000

OK. I got a little closer, but your still looks a lot cooler. The “Add Alpha Channel” option under layer | transparency doesn’t seem to ever by enabled for me using Gimp 2.4.2, but I used other techniques to get a similar effect.

Thanks!