![]() ![]() I guess this is kind of leading into some questions I have about using colors in Inkscape, so I'll stop here, for now. Or, is a gradient named #1234, without any modification, always the same gradient? Plus, with this number/name system there can only be 8999 possible gradients, yet clearly there are.well, probably an infinite number of potential gradients in the real world. If not, how does one begin to recreate a gradient? ![]() Is it possible to save a gradient for later use? If so, how? (Hhhm, I wonder if it would tweak the original one if the original doc was actually closed? Hhhhm.) Once I've finally got a gradient exactly how I want it, is there any way to save it, to use it later? Because getting back to intuition, if I saved (or remembered) the gradient's number name from some other document, and I wanted to use it again.well 1st, where would I enterthe number/name, to call up the gradient? Or from where do I select the number/name, in order to use it again - the previous document where I used it before? Would I simply open that other document and copy the gradient? Well, no, I tried that, but when I needed to tweak the gradient a little for the new doc, it tweaked the original one too, even though I wasn't even working on that doc. The only way to get rid of that blue part is to create an entirely new gradient, with different number/names. So if I have a gradient that goes from opaque blue to fully transparent, then I change my mind, and I want it to start with red and end with blue, there's no way to get rid of the blue part which seems to be represented by the difference between the gradient's name and 1st stop. Is that how it's supposed to be?Īlong the same theme, it looks to me like one cannot change the gradient's base color, only its stops. Because I can have a particular gradient selected (highlighted), all by itself, but editing the stops actually edits a different gradient, one that is not selected at all, and could even be in an entirely different document!. Apparently one selects gradients and stops which one wants to edit, by clicking on their number/names, rather than with the object, gradient, path, shape, etc. The next problem I've come up against, is how exactly to edit the gradient. What do the 2 undeletable stops' numbers represent, besides just their name? Why is not the 1st stop the same name/number as the gradient itself? Because again, intuitively, why would the gradients be named by numbers, if the sequence is not important? If the gradients were named with 6 numbers, that would really make sense!! (because of the html color naming system) But, oh well. Here I'm assuming that the sequence of numbers is of some importance. Since in my playing around with Inkscape gradients, I've seen them named anywhere between 10, it seems sort of unlikely that a gradient which starts with a fully opaque color, ending fully transparent could be defined by a range of only 4. ![]() Say for example the gradient is called #1234, one stop would be 1236 and the other 1238. But their number names are very close to the gradient name. ![]() This would lead me automatically to suspect that one stop defines one end of the gradient, and the other defines the other end. More Stops can be added, but these 2 cannot be deleted. Intuitive to me would be that these 1st 2 stops somehow define the gradient, because they cannot be deleted. In the Gradient Editor, there are 2 Stops, also named by 4 digit numbers, both very close to the name of the gradient. At this point, I notice in the toolbar which appears along the top of the main Inkscape window, that the gradient has been given a name, always a 4 digit number. I have learned how to apply a gradient to an object, and that a Stop seems to be the endpoint of a segment within a gradient.at least I'm pretty sure that's what it is Using the Object Fill and Stroke dialog, clicking on a gradient, and then the Edit button, opens the Gradient Editor dialog. So there are a few things that I have not been able to figure out by trial and error. Since I'm not a graphics professional or artist, things that might be intuitive for them, are not for me. This is not so much a 'how do I do a certain effect' question, as it is just a basic 'how do I work with Inkscape gradients in general' question. ![]()
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