Raymondo Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Can the team tell me why after all this time (2014) you still cannot use your own preset gradients in the effects, gradient overlay window. Seems strange to me you can only make up gradients but can’t use presets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Have you tried creating styles for saving your gradient overlay effects? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymondo Posted September 1, 2021 Author Share Posted September 1, 2021 I’m not sure RC-R that you are understanding what I’m referring to. I don’t want to save a gradient effect made via the gradient overlay effects panel. I want to be able to access gradients I already have within the colour system from the effect gradient overlay panel which I should be able to do. In fact I should be able to access my preset gradients from anywhere within the colour system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 19 minutes ago, Raymondo said: I want to be able to access gradients I already have within the colour system from the effect gradient overlay panel which I should be able to do. Could you explain a bit more about what you mean by gradients already in the color system? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymondo Posted September 2, 2021 Author Share Posted September 2, 2021 By that I mean colour and swatches which are part of what I call the colour system. In the swatches palette, apart from the Pantone colour palettes you have all your preset colour swatches parked here, i.e gradient palettes etc you have created or downloaded. At present you cannot access these gradient swatches from the effects gradient overlay window which you should be able to. Your swatches should be available to you throughout the program where there is colour selection options, it shouldn’t be limited to just creating a gradient, that’s my issue with the software. It’s been like this since the beginning. I may be talking out of turn here but I wouldn’t think this would require a major effort to correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclast Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 You can add your own gradients to the colour swatches. Just create a gradient on a vector object. That is Important! You can't save gradients from pixel layers. I think it is because you can even choose the colour of single gradient points by clicking on a colour swatch. Then go to the burger menu of the Colour Swatches Panel and click on "Add Application Palette", if you want to create a new category for your own gradients. After that you can add your gradients to your category by clicking on the button "Add current fill to palette" (on the right of the Palettes Menu). To give that category a name open the burger menu again and click on Rename Palette. Normally you can even transfer gradients you created on pixel layers before, if you create a vector object, draw a gradient on it and click besides the entry "Recent" in the Swatches Panel on your gradient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymondo Posted September 2, 2021 Author Share Posted September 2, 2021 With respect you have totally misunderstood the issue. It’s not about creating, saving and naming gradients to the swatches palette, I’ve already saved many gradients to this palette and understand the practice fully. I am referring to the access and use of these gradients within the swatches palette, within the effects overlay window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclast Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 27 minutes ago, Raymondo said: With respect you have totally misunderstood the issue. It’s not about creating, saving and naming gradients to the swatches palette, I’ve already saved many gradients to this palette and understand the practice fully. I am referring to the access and use of these gradients within the swatches palette, within the effects overlay window. OK, I see. But that seems to be a bug, because my gradient categories appear under "Swatches" in the Colour menu of "Gradient Overlay" in the FX panel, while the gradients, I saved in this cetegories, don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 18 minutes ago, iconoclast said: OK, I see. But that seems to be a bug, because my gradient categories appear under "Swatches" in the Colour menu of "Gradient Overlay" in the FX panel, while the gradients, I saved in this cetegories, don't. Yes it seems to be a bug.. Quote Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted September 2, 2021 Staff Share Posted September 2, 2021 Hi @Raymondo and all others here 18 minutes ago, Ron P. said: Yes it seems to be a bug.. I can confirm this is not technically a bug, though it is logged with our developers as an improvement. When editing any gradient colour node (be it from the Context Toolbar with the Gradient/Fill Tool enabled, the Gradient Map Adjustment, or the Gradient Overlay FX option) you are only editing one 'point' in the gradient, and therefore it isn't possible to apply a Swatch gradient 'within' another gradient. However, I can certainly see why you'd want to apply already created Swatches to these dialogs, which is the improvement that is already logged. I will be sure to 'bump' this improvement request with our developers now for you, I hope this clears things up! Old Bruce, Ron P. and iconoclast 2 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 I can see why now. I think that the possible route could be making them accessible from the Gradient color block, the one to the right of the word Gradient. Thanks Dan. Dan C 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymondo Posted September 2, 2021 Author Share Posted September 2, 2021 Yes it does Dan C Dan C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 6 hours ago, Raymondo said: I am referring to the access and use of these gradients within the swatches palette, within the effects overlay window. I think more generally it is about using gradients everywhere color choices are offered, & setting of all of a gradient's color stops to those of any gradient that is available in the Swatches panel. Does that sound about right? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymondo Posted September 2, 2021 Author Share Posted September 2, 2021 Yeah, that’s about right. Maybe it might be sorted by version 2……hopefully! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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