I’ve never saved a GIMP custom gradient before. Well, now I have, but the trouble is that the gradient is supposed to have specific start and end colors, and instead the end colors reset to the foreground/background colors.
I’ve done the obligatory internet search and read through some of the official documentation. But either the procedure for saving a gradient with specific start/stop colors has changed since these tutorials and documentation were written. Or I am simply not “getting” the relevant steps to save the start/stop colors along with the actual gradient.
Any help/hints would be greatly appreciated (in general I find the procedures for saving presets and such in GIMP to be, well, downright baffling).
Thanks! for the link to that gradient editor dialog page in the GIMP documentation - a lot of information and somehow I never found that particular page. Everything seems to be explained, but it still seems to me to be like reading an auto repair manual, it only makes sense in retrospect, after you already figured out what to do.
Thanks! for the screenshots and for explaining about the Fixed endpoints.
The context for wanting to save a custom gradient was to use a specific set of end points as the gradient to be used as the color source for painting with a brush. Well, that seemed like a straightforward goal, but it took me forever to even figure out that the first step was opening the “Gradients” docker. Sigh - at first I thought the relevant docker might be the Tool Preset docker, but I guess that’s for something else.
Various on-line tutorials seem to say there is a “Save” button for saving custom gradients, which I think I found once, but haven’t found it again. Even so, somehow I now have two new custom gradients, each with different endpoints. Well, that’s a start! even though I’m not really sure how I managed to save these gradients.
