Learn to create custom gradients in the GIMP

Step 1:

Today we will learn how to select a custom gradient. Selecting a gradient in Adobe Photoshop is much simpler when compared to the GIMP so i thought it would be helpful if I write a tutorial on how to select your custom gradients.

Start a new document of size 200×200 pix. Select the Eleptical tool and draw a circle using it. Now click on the gradeint button. It opens the preset gradient’s. Most of the gradients we use is already present but we like to make our own custom gradient. Let’s see the gradients that GIMP offers by default.

Step 2:

Let’s make our own custom gradient now. Click on the new gradient to open the gradiint editor.

The Gradeint Editor

Click on the arrow button on the top (it is highlighted with red).

We get the following menu

The Left Endpoint and Right Endpoint is used to select the extreme Left and Right endpoints’ colours respectviely. Click on then to select the left and right endpoint colours respectively.

Step 3:

I slected the Left Endpoint as (#004506) and Right endpoint as (#11ee00) and this is what I got as my custom gradeint.

Give it a name and click on the save button to save it. If you want one end to be trasparent you need to the alpha in the gradeint editor colour selection i.e. here

On the top you can see the preview and in the bottom you can reduce the Alpha so that make your one end as transparent as you can see in the top preview.

That’s all we need to know to create our own custom gradient.

Hope this tutorial was useful.