Thanks. I get it now. I had used a black to white gradient, but white to white gives a better feather result. What do you have the blending ink set to?
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > Hi Howard: > > I was referring to the opacity of the inner color stop of the gradient. > Use two colors in the radial gradient, such as white to white, and set the > opacity of the color stop assigned to the inner color of the gradient to 0. > > The result looks like this: > http://tactilemedia.com/download/gradient-feather.jpg > > You can also pull in the position of the outer color stop so you get more > blending at the edge of the oval shape. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX/UI Design > > > > > On 2/4/16, 11:28 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Howard Bornstein" > <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of > bornst...@designeq.com> wrote: > > >Scott, > > > >I don't quite follow this. I made an oval graphic, set up a radial > >gradient > >with both colors set to white and made the fill color clear (is this what > >you mean by the inner color?—nothing shows at all if you set the opaque to > >false). I got a radial gradient that covered the image, but I'm not sure > >how you make that a mask that feathers the image. What blending ink did > >you > >use? Are you using any graphic effects? What am I not understanding here? > > > >On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> > >wrote: > > > >> I'm guessing you guys want the final result to be rectangular and not > >> oval-shaped. That's too bad because you could use a radial gradient > >>using > >> a single color (i.e. white to white) in a graphic with the inner color > >>set > >> to 100% transparent -- this makes a near-perfect mask but only in oval > >> shape. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Scott Rossi > >> Creative Director > >> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 2/3/16, 9:50 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Howard Bornstein" > >> <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of > >> bornst...@designeq.com> wrote: > >> > >> >>You can achieve a feather effect using multiple objects stacked on > >>top of > >> >>each other, but then you have to ask is that worth doing. If you > >>have to > >> >>do anything with the set of objects, such as move it around or scale > >>it, > >> >>then the effect is probably too much trouble, especially on mobile. > >> >> > >> > > >> >This is how we did it‹using multiple graphic objects stacked. However, > >>I > >> >used a gradient for each edge and used Outer Glow. I think it would be > >>a > >> >lot of work to script this for general work but Brahmanathaswami seems > >>to > >> >think it will be worthwhile to try it. I'm interested to see what he > >>comes > >> >up with. > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > > > > > > > >-- > >Regards, > > > >Howard Bornstein > >----------------------- > >www.designeq.com > >_______________________________________________ > >use-livecode mailing list > >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >subscription preferences: > >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Regards, Howard Bornstein ----------------------- www.designeq.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
