Gradient Tools

[dcjohan]

One of the gradient types I find missing is the reflected gradient. Might it be possible to include such in the next release?

[GripsholmLion]

I sat through a fairly long video of someone using this in Photoshop, exclaiming it to be sliced bread, and saw nothing which cannot be created in Affinity Photo, starting with adding a midpoint to a gradient and setting the colour stops to A-B-A. This starting point could be refined and then saved to a swatch for reuse. So unless my mind drifted off and I missed something crucial, I think that we probably already have it, in effect, without much more work than was shown in the video. How effective it can be is probably more down to experimentation than any inherent limitation of AP.

[loukash]

23 minutes ago, GripsholmLion said:

I sat through a fairly long video of someone using this in Photoshop, exclaiming it to be sliced bread, and saw nothing which cannot be created in Affinity Photo

I also just watched a random one from the top of my DuckDuckGo search results. In fact, by that I just learned an interesting technique how to enhance photos. So watching it was a Good Thing™ to begin with, not even a waste of time.

But my impression was that PS kinda "needs" this, er… "sliced bread feature" to work around its clumsy gradient fill workflows that involve multiple levels of modal dialog windows. Yikes!

But I could be wrong, of course…  

[loukash]

So…

Taking a random Pixabay image and attempting to replicate what I just learned in that PS video I watched, after about two or three minutes fiddling around I came up with this:

Is that what you're trying to accomplish, @dcjohan?

[dcjohan]

Yes, thank you. Now I need to go try that.