

We can also use a blending tool in image manipulation, so let us discuss it.įor this purpose, I will take these two images.
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How to use the Blending tool in Image Manipulation? I will suggest you choose proper colors for your gradients during blending work so there will be less need for editing in the future. Now after setting colors, you can redraw the gradient on your layer. Just select any one of them and click on the Duplicate button for duplicating it for your use.

Now you will have different presets of gradient here.
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Or you can go on the Windows menu, then one Dockable Dialogs option and chose the Gradients option from the scroll-down list. Make a right-click on this box, and you will have a different option for changing its color. You will have a gradient editor box on the right side of the document area. So for editing, make click on this button. In place of editing, it will draw a new gradient like this. Now go to your gradient layer, and when you take the blend tool for editing your drawn grading, you will enable to do that. Let us have a new layer and draw a circle like this. But we can do another thing for editing purpose. It is difficult to edit a drawn gradient after going on a new layer for different work. How to Edit drawn gradient of blend tool? You can also draw a gradient in a diagonal direction by moving the gradient line’s start and endpoint. If you want to delete any added point from the gradient line, then just hold it with the mouse left button by click on it and drag into the upward/downward direction and when you see the color has gone off that point, then release the mouse button. In the inspiral shape, you will get this. If you choose the Radial option, you will get this type of gradient effect. We have a different type of shape of the gradient of the blend tool here on this list. You will also get hardedge if you take two different colors on both sides of your added blend color point. Now let us switch to this gradient preset. You can do the same with the first color.
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If you want to change the end color, then click on the plus sign on the end cursor. You can drag your added option any time for increasing or decrease chosen color areas. Make a click on this link button to separate both colors, and you can choose a different color for the right color. You will have the same color in both the left and right color option because the chain-link button is On. So make a click on the Left Color box, and you will get this ‘Change Stop Color’ box. Through this box, you can change the color of the blend at the left and right sides of that added point. Once you add it, you will have a dialog box named stop 1 on the upper right corner of this document. For adding a point, move the cursor on this line, and you will see plus sing with the circular cursor.Īnd make a click on that place, and the blending color point will be at that place. You can add one or more blending color points anywhere on the blending line of this draw gradient. Now let us take another preset, FG to BG (Hardedg), which means you will have a hard blending edge of color. You can also go out of the document area for the blending effect. I will choose the Abstract 1 option.Īnd for drawing gradient with blend tool, just click on the starting of the document on the left side, then drag it into the opposite side.Ĭolors of the blend tool will blend as you go forward in the chosen direction. Now take a preset gradient from this list. You can also press the G button of the keyboard as a short cut key. Now take the Gradient tool from the tool panel, which is a blending tool in this version. Now we have a transparent background in the image or document window of this software. Now go to advance setting options and choose the Transparency option from the ‘Fill with’ option. Or you can enter your own value of document size. In the dialog box of creating documents, you will have different preset sizes. Click on the New option of the scroll-down list. For this purpose, go to the File menu and click on it. Now create a new document for learning about this topic.
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So let us understand the working of this software through some examples. We can use the blend tool in many ways, such as we can make a nice color blended background, blend two images for their manipulating purpose, and some other things.
