Balakov Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 I spent the last weekend creating a tool to convert Adobe suite .grd gradient files to .afpalette files for use in the Affinity suite. There are so many great resources for gradients out there but no easy way to get them into Affinity applications without a lot of manual labour. The tool is hosted on GitHub (the Javascript code is available for the curious), but all processing is done in your browser. No files are uploaded anywhere. https://mikestimpson.com/GrdToAfpalette/ There are a few limitation around colourspace (RGB only) and transparency (not supported), and I have not tested with a huge number of .grd files. It works for what I needed 🙂 Wayne Burrows, 73pctGeek, PaulEC and 24 others 13 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 Mind officially blown, thank you @Balakov Stock Photoshop Gradients.zip j3rry, Balakov, Gregor_zbjk and 6 others 4 5 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLiner Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 Great tool! Thanks. Balakov and Gregor_zbjk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animositysomina Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Wow. This is so cool. Thanks! Balakov and Gregor_zbjk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graphic74 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Really thank you! it's awesome and work very smooth! 😁 Balakov and Gregor_zbjk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrb Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 Thank you for sharing but I 🤣 when I was noticed "transparency not supported'' ---- the only preset grads I was looking for Back to the drawing board (Lr5 grad tool 😁 Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balakov Posted June 15, 2023 Author Share Posted June 15, 2023 I added partial support for transparency a while ago, but the trouble is that Adobe palettes support more complex transparencies than Affinity can cope with. Transparency stops are completely separate from the colour stops which allows for complex transparency gradients on simple colour gradients or vice versa. The converter supports transparency only when the transparency stops exactly match the colour stops, but looking at the screenshot you posted in the other forum, that's likely not going to help with that you need. I have a plan for sometime in the future to "fake" more complex transparencies by adding dummy colour stops. I just haven't got around to it yet. ianrb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrb Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 @Balakov thank you, I will look forward your "fake" LOL ; in the mean time I will just wander back to Lr5 for my rather simple grad needs or I might fire up the other "ONE" :eek: 🤫 . Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balakov Posted June 19, 2023 Author Share Posted June 19, 2023 @ianrb I've just pushed a version that should support transparency. See how you get on with that! Gradients with complex transparency may be a bit fiddly to edit in Affinity because of the fake stops I add to carry the transparency info when there's no colour stop to attach it to. They should work fine as-is though. There will also be an inconsistency if you have a colour stop and a transparency stop at exactly the same location with different midpoints. At that point we've hit the limits of what you can do with Affinity gradients though, and it shouldn't be a very common occurrence. Next task, HSB gradient support! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrb Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 @Balakov you are champion for the cause mate ---- cause being Affinity to make a far simpler grad tool as LR has had for many year ( hint hint 😁 ) Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balakov Posted June 20, 2023 Author Share Posted June 20, 2023 HSB gradient support is in. That should cover most freely available Photoshop gradients. If anyone desperately wants support for CMYK, Grayscale or Lab colour gradients, and they have an example .grd file they can send me, just let me know. The code isn't hard, but I don't have any examples to test against. ianrb and animositysomina 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabomon01 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 This is cool. Thanks! Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ainur Mufid Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Always success for creator Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HELE Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 Thank you so much! Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregor_zbjk Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Thank you! great tool! Balakov 1 Quote Platform: MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2017, Silver (Macbook Pro 14,3) CPU: 2,9 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 GPU: Radeon Pro 560 4 GB Integrated GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB RAM: 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 Mobile Devices: iPad 8th Gen, 32 GB, Space Gray + Apple Pencil 1st Gen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khdasel Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Tolle farben super👍 Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
signingin54 Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 Fantastic! I already had plenty of useful gradients that I had used with other programs, and until now, I had no easy way to import them into the Affinity suite. Thanks for this great tool! Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artifex Forge Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 This looks like an amazing useful tool - thanks for creating it! Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FraGar Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Thank's nice tool to save a lot of work. Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catlover Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 I stumbled upon this tool only just now. Amazing ! Thank you so much 👍 C.L. Balakov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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