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"Usenet User" wrote in message
Click on the gradient in the gradient tool settings at the top of the screen, and set the Smoothness slider to zero.
Gradient smoothness has been with us since at least Photoshop 5.5. Even today, many discussions of this feature assume that the term smoothness means an even distribution of gradient values. The term actually means the opposite: the use of a spline function to weight the ends of the gradient so that color transitions within the gradient are smoother. At the time this feature was introduced, this was considered to be so superior to a linear gradient that there was no way to disable it! Photoshop 6.0 provided a way to control smoothness in the gradient editor.
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Mike Russell – www.curvemeister.com
Problem: create a 256-px-wide grayscale picture, filled with a linear gradient from 0 to 255
Settings for the gradient tool:
Foreground to background
Linear gradient
Mode: normal
Opacity: 100%
Reverse: no
Dither: no
Transparency: no
To my surprise, the resulting gradient is not linear. It seems like it is a bit squished toward the center, i.e., the edge color are a bit stretched.
Any ideas?
Click on the gradient in the gradient tool settings at the top of the screen, and set the Smoothness slider to zero.
Gradient smoothness has been with us since at least Photoshop 5.5. Even today, many discussions of this feature assume that the term smoothness means an even distribution of gradient values. The term actually means the opposite: the use of a spline function to weight the ends of the gradient so that color transitions within the gradient are smoother. At the time this feature was introduced, this was considered to be so superior to a linear gradient that there was no way to disable it! Photoshop 6.0 provided a way to control smoothness in the gradient editor.
—
Mike Russell – www.curvemeister.com
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