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distributing gradiant


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healing1000

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Hello how to distribute the gradiant in a way gray is fairly distributed and doesnt look like an oval or a line for any random shape
I want the in the end to make all outline black and it gets grayed out little by little to the inside
Ex:

the thing.jpg
 
Your gradient is set for radial, try clicking where it say radial there are 4/5 options in drop down.i think you're asking about linear?
 
make the white shape in a layer
then double click on the layer in the layer window ( on the right ) to open the layer effects window
now select inner glow
blend mode: normal
put the color on black

change opacity, technique, choke, size, source, contour and range to your liking

gradient.png
 
It works to make the glow cover the shape I want but the color doesnt look as good as gradiant no matter how much i change the settings (its not smooth)
This kind of smooth but on shapes different than squares

Untitled-1.png
 
healing1000, I am unclear on what you are trying to do. The shape sample you posted just looks like each shape is one color. You are trying to add a gradient to each shape? Each being on it's own layer? And you have tried varying how far out you carry the gradient line when you're adding the gradient? Another thing you can do is right click on the gradient and change the stops to control the amount of black versus transparent or second color you use.

If I understand better what you want to do, maybe I can help better. Maybe others are in the same fix as I am and could give you advice.
 
Hey basically I was trying to make the picture in my last post into any shape i want
I was trying with inner glow it worked good enough with a little noise and changing the color of the glow to dark gray
so chris way worked for me thanks
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I had asked about doing this sort of thing on another forum and the upshot was that its not possible to do this in PS except, as noted above, manually. However it can easily be done in Illustrator.
 
No b-man, but i did cheat it! I used SELECT > MODIFY > CONTRACT > 18px (?) on the original. I then repeated this on each new contracted layer. I used lightening shades of gray to white on each new layer, and then I just blurred the layers until they approximated a gradient.

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@Bman4 Idk about checking another program ill keep in mind

@sam not exactly like that but the contract selection thing will be good for other things I have in mind
I wanted to make something like my last screenshot from last page a bit better but it worked well enough so I dont mind

but what kind of blurr did u use I tried gausian blurr with the same layer order u did (black-darkgray-lightgray) from bottom to top, it blurred when I show each layer alone but when I show them all together the blurr disappeared.
 
IamSam said:
No b-man, but i did cheat it! I used SELECT > MODIFY > CONTRACT > 18px (?) on the original. I then repeated this on each new contracted layer. I used lightening shades of gray to white on each new layer, and then I just blurred the layers until they approximated a gradient.

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Not only cool, but sneaky as well.
 
healing1000 said:
but what kind of blurr did u use I tried gausian blurr with the same layer order u did (black-darkgray-lightgray) from bottom to top, it blurred when I show each layer alone but when I show them all together the blurr disappeared.
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Try adjusting the opacity of the layers, if the layers opacity are at 100% you will not be able to see anything below the top layer.
 
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