P: Gradient editor needs a few improvements

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
May 10, 2013
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It is almost impossible to use the gradient editor to simulate blending between lights, because it draws a straight line through RGB space. It would be good to be able to select HSL and LAB colour spaces for the gradient editor, and it would be even better if you could make bezier curves through RGB space, like the free tool at http://www.foddy.net/2010/10/gentle-g... is pretty frustrating that there was more flexibility in Deluxe Paint IV's gradient tool 23 years ago than there is in Photoshop's gradient tool now.

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baer1

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UPDATE! In today's new release of Photoshop we have enabled multiple gradient interpolation options:

Perceptual, the new default method: smoothness controls interpolated using OKlab color space
Linear: interpolates using linear color space

Classic: interpolates using the selected working space.

Learn more here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/gradient-interpolation.html

Special thanks to @bennettf96052341 for his gracious feedback 🙂

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What a moron chris cox is

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rene_schmidt_6ouboq4vp4n2f

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Answer: they don’t care.

They got your money and raked in huge profits with the subscription model, with loads of buggy new “features”, but no resolves for long-standing issues. What incentive do they have to fix this? Pfffft.

I mean really, look how long this thread is and how old it is.

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Why can't it function like Gradient tool in Illustrator? That one is much more user friendly and doesn't need so many steps to get to the same results.

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Probably because the gradient editor sucks.

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rene_schmidt_6ouboq4vp4n2f

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bwahaha the Sr. Scientist snark strikes again.

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dav3punk

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Bennett. You are beating a dead horse. I saw your tool, it is really nice and way more comprehensive and accurate compared to Photoshop. Chris knows everything and he thinks Photoshop is a perfect tool with no room for improvements.