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A Photo on PC: I'm sure I'm missing something and search hasn't helped me.

I make a gradient BG ie Blue to white on a diagonal. I want to modify it but the gradient wheel does not reember my last seeing or the setting on the layer I'm working on.

Swearing at the screen  has no effect. 🙄 What should I be doing so that I can modify my layer without starting the gradient from scratch?

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It seems you need to apply the gradient to a vector object to keep it editable at later times.
In case of applying to a pixel layer the current UI appears neither to recognize the applied gradient (gradient tool and/or move tool) nor to allow to change one of its colors only (gradient tool).

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This makes me wonder:
The gradient's blue applied to the pixel layer appears different to the same values applied to the vector layer? For both the cmyk slider was used with 100c 50m, the document is AdobeRGB.
• Any idea why or how this happens, and how to avoid it?

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Layer > New Fill Layer

Will allow you to apply and modify the gradient at will

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Sounds like this is a Pixel layer, you only get the one chance with those. What I do is make a rectangle and use the Gradient tool on that, that way it is editable later. You may eventually have to rasterize it.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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17 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Sounds like this is a Pixel layer,

Fill Layers are special magical layers created by unicorns

You can add a gradient to a Fill Layer, do some other stuff, then reselect the Fill Layer at any time and use the Gradient Tool to modify the previously created gradient

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49 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Layer > New Fill Layer

Will allow you to apply and modify the gradient at will

Great hint, thank you! I haven't even noticed this option before, since it doesn't show up in the Layers Panel interface, where already Mask, Adjustment, Effect, Live Filter, Group and Pixel got an icon + button.

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Any idea why in this "layer panel's toolbar" is no Fill Layer icon / button, too? Just forgotten – or is there a purpose or advantage not to have it there?

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1 minute ago, thomaso said:

Any idea why in this "layer panel's toolbar" is no Fill Layer icon / button, too? Just forgotten – or is there a purpose or advantage not to have it there?

You will need to ask the unicorns

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2 minutes ago, carl123 said:

You will need to ask the unicorns

Are those lovely creatures responsible for the Fill Layer only – or would they also know why the UI makes me want to believe that here is no Fill applied yet to the selected pixel layer? :

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13 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Are those lovely creatures responsible for the Fill Layer only – or would they also know why the UI makes me want to believe that here is no Fill applied yet to the selected pixel layer? :

Pixel layers do not have a Fill. That's part of why they do not remember that they have a gradient, and what its settings are.

If you apply a gradient to a pixel layer you replace its contents with pixels that look like the gradient. But they are not a Fill; they are simply the layer's pixels.

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Those pesky unicorns just mess with your mind sometimes

 

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20 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Pixel layers do not have a Fill. That's part of why they do not remember that they have a gradient, and what its settings are.

If you apply a gradient to a pixel layer you replace its contents with pixels that look like the gradient. But they are not a Fill; they are simply the layer's pixels.

So the term "Fill" in Affinity is limited in its meaning to vector objects?

– Unless the unicorns let me fill it with a bitmap, as in AD and APub ...

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22 minutes ago, DavidDoesAffinity said:

Thank you all for the explanations...and also why I need to source a Unicorn or two.

There’s a choice of two right here on these forums! :234_unicorn:  🦄

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18 minutes ago, Lagarto said:

if you e.g. use C100 (other values zero): it is clearly G255 B255

Isn’t RGB(0,255,255) out of gamut for CMYK? Although we call it ‘cyan’ I don’t think we should expect it to look the same as CMYK(100,0,0,0). It’s the same the other way around: CMYK(0,100,100,0) is red, but it doesn’t necessarily look the same as RGB(255,0,0).

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1 minute ago, Lagarto said:

Yes, but that's the color that is clearly shows. It should not (and does not, if you use any other tool).

I see what you mean now! Thanks for the clarification.

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