Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-10 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:13 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: My monitor is not a CRT, but I think it's pretty good: it's a Samsung 2253BW LCD, from 2008. Not sure if this tells you much, but on this monitor I can easily distinguish every shade in the color scale from dpreview.com:

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:13 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient.jpg http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/smooth-gradient.jpg Not a fair comparison. Your unsmooth gradient has a much smaller range than the image of the smooth

[Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-10 Thread photocomix
You already get a lot of good advices I will add that just apply a simplicistic but very effective trick may do marvels just some gaussian blur on your gradient may create all the smoothness you may desire ...more the range, more smoothness (you can't save as gradient a blurred gradient but you

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-10 Thread mac9416
On the contrary, applying a Gaussian blur will have no effect. The gradient is already as smooth as it will get. Anthony, is it absolutely necessary that you have a whitetransparency gradient layer over a background layer? I was able to eyedrop the center color and outer color and create a

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-10 Thread Anthony DiSante
On 01/10/2010 05:22 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:13 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: My monitor is not a CRT, but I think it's pretty good: it's a Samsung 2253BW LCD, from 2008. Not sure if this tells you much, but on this monitor I can easily distinguish every shade in

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-10 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 13:04 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: On 01/10/2010 05:22 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:13 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: My monitor is not a CRT, but I think it's pretty good: it's a Samsung 2253BW LCD, from 2008. Not sure if this tells you

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 09:32 -0600, mac9416 wrote: Anthony, is it absolutely necessary that you have a whitetransparency gradient layer over a background layer? I was able to eyedrop the center color and outer color and create a one-layer gradient that looks very smooth. I can't

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-10 Thread GSR - FR
Hi, for...@gimpusers.com (2010-01-10 at 1554.49 +0100): You already get a lot of good advices I will add that just apply a simplicistic but very effective trick may do marvels just some gaussian blur on your gradient may create all the smoothness you may desire ...more the range, more

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-09 Thread Sven Neumann
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 22:05 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: Here are my files: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient.jpg http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient.xcf.gz As you can see, there are obvious striations there, rather than a smooth

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-09 Thread Anthony DiSante
On 01/09/2010 05:35 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 22:05 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: Here are my files: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient.jpg http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient.xcf.gz As you can see, there are

[Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-08 Thread Anthony DiSante
Hello, I'm trying to create a smooth radial gradient in GIMP. I'm doing what I guess is the obvious thing: use the Blend/Gradient tool, set the shape to Radial, and draw it. This gives me a decent gradient, but it's not actually smooth. And it's especially unsmooth when I set the gradient

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?

2010-01-08 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:05:29 -0500 Anthony DiSante the...@nodivisions.com wrote: As you can see, there are obvious striations there, rather than a smooth gradient. Hi, Anthony. I believe the problem is that you are making a gray gradient (which means that all three colors are changing