Hi, I'd like to have a gradient of greys from black at the edges to white in the centre inside selected areas, i.e. using the rectangle marquee to choose where to put such gradents on an image - is this possible? I.e. this square blended from the centre to the edges???

Should be. Have you tried the diamond option on the gradient tool?

Is this for piramid in bryce ;) Tihomir

aprilgem, What diamond option??? How do you do that? Here's what I see, but the green circled items don't seem to affect the image at all no matter how many times I click on it... Help? tantarus, Nope it's to attempt to make a bump map for the instructions you gave me on "Boxes" - but yes, for Bryce.

In step 6 are multiple color boxes because I was add them one by one. After all the preparations are made make the new layer center the gradient cursor in the middle of the document hold SHIFT and drag to the edge of the document. Thats all :) Tihomir

I've tried it but it's not working, I am getting something, but it's the reverse of what I want.

Here^^^

This has black in the centre and white on the edges, I wanted white in the centre and black at the edges. In fact, if you look at the image in the first message of this thread, I want this gradient ONLY in the grey area. Is this possible?

Message edited on: 11/01/2005 10:49

You can reverse the gradient by flipping the background and foreground colors (press X), and you can restrict it to the grey area by selecting the grey area and THEN using the gradient tool. :)

You need to have the grey area selected and diamond gradient of white to black. Drag from center to one of the corners. Is this something you were after?

Message edited on: 11/01/2005 12:25

Or select the grey area (with magic wand on 100%) and then press CTRL+J to cut the grey area from the background layer and automaticly put on separate layer. That way you`ll have much biger control :) To put the gradient into the grey area, first lock the transparency by clicking on the little box just bellow the blending modes (hold the mouse over to see which is the right one). Now when you drag the gradient on that layer it will only afect the grey area and leave the rest alone :) Another thing, if you want to quickly change the gradient color order when its already applyed press CTRL+I to invert the colors order :) Tihomir

Ctrl I - thanks. Does this work even if the colours you have selected are for instance... green and brown? I ask becasue they were the last colours I was using for something - and there are no black and white visible... or should I change to B&W first?

Nope, it doesn't work for other colors. Ctrl-I "Inverts" the colors, so you'd only get a negative of green and brown -- perhaps a pink and blue. Change your color to B&W first, then do the gradient.

With adjustment gradient layer you have the option to reverse the colors, in another words it doesnt matter which colors are been used, green-red, blue-yellow, etc. you`ll find the adjustment layers on the left side of the new layer icon. They are powerful because you can edit them any time and corect the color problem, blending mode, etc. :) Tihomir

dreamer101, Well it's not quite what I wanted - I need the gradient to actually go from white through grey to black, so that the black area is blended in with the gradient and the same for the white area. Is this possible? Thanks all...

Is this what you want? In adjustment layer options set the angle to 45 to get the square, check the reverse box. For the white square in the middle of the gradient use this workaround: 1) create new layer 2) with marque tool make the selection in the center of the gradient (hold ALT+SHIFT while draging to constrain the proportions) 3) press CTRL+backspace to fill the selection with white color, deselect. 4) Go to filter-blur-gaussian blur and set the amount to about 18%. Now you have blending from black trough grey to white ;) Tihomir

Oh very good, that's just what I needed! Thanks very much. (rushing off to try it)