Gifgit Online Image Editor (2024)

About the Gradient Tool

How to Create Gradients

• Upload an image using the form above.
• Set the foreground and background color to set the start and end colors of the color transition for the gradient.
• Press and drag to draw a line in the image to set the start and end points of the gradient. The gradientis applied once the mouse is lifted.

How the Gradient Tool Works

The gradient tool is very simple to use. You set the type of gradient then click and drag to set the start and end of the gradient. About the most difficult part of using the gradient tool would be creatingyour own custom gradient, should you choose to do so. There are however many preset gradient for you to choose from.Aside from the gradient type, other tool options control how the gradient is applied to the image.Before we go into the tool specifics it is best to get an understanding of gradients.

What is a Gradient?

A gradient is a set of color-position pairs that determine how the specified colors should transition when used to fill an area.The color-position pairs are conventionally called color stops in image editing.Each color stop is assigned a position from 0 to 1 that is used to place the colorrelative to the distance of the drawn gradient line. This relative positioning will be explained later.The most basic gradient is a transition between two color stops but a gradient can have as many color stops as you want. Below is a table of two gradients in each row. Each column displays:

1. a table of color stops for the gradient.
2. a linear visualization of the color stops showing the color and its position in the gradient.
3. a thumb of the draw gradient.

Color Stop Table	Linear Visualization	Rendered Gradient
No. position color Sym 0 0.00 red 1 1.00 yellow
No. position color Sym 0 0.00 purple 1 0.50 blue 2 1.00 green

In the table above two linear gradients are shown.The first gradient in the above table is a simple two color-stop gradient.The rendered gradient is as a result of drawing a horizontal line andshows how the gradient color transitions from red at the start point to yellow at the end point. Notice how in between the color stops the color changes from red to orange then to yellow.This is the color transition that a gradient creates between color stops.

As previously mentioned the color stop positions are relative to the drawn gradient line.For the first gradient the start point is at coordinate (22,31) and the end point is at (96,31).The color stop positions are relative to the line you draw to create the gradient.The red stop at position 0 will be placed at the starting point (22,31)and the yellow stop at position 1 will be placed at point (96, 31).This is how the color stops positions are positioned relative to the line. If another color stop were placed at position 0.5 then it would be placed at the centerof the drawn gradient line at point (59,31).

The second gradient has three color stops. It is rendered along a non-horizontal line with purple at position 0 or the beginning, blue at 0.5 or in the middle and green at position 1 or at the end.This shows how gradients transitions the color stops along the directionof the drawn line. Any direction you draw the line the color transitions will follow.

Gradient Types

The gradient type determines how the gradient transitions the colors with respect to the drawn gradient line.The gradient line starts where you press the mouse and ends where the mouse is released.There are two basic gradient types namely linear and radial gradients.