Gradient studio guide

Three looks

Each picture below was made in Gradient studio in a 960-pixel-wide frame. The table under each one is the whole recipe; everything not listed stays as the page opens. Press a preset first, since it replaces the colour stops.

Neon burst

Sixteen rays of pink, violet, blue and cyan leaving the middle of the frame — The Neon preset as a Burst with 16 rays.

Neon has five stops, from pink through violet to cyan. Burst sends each ray from the first stop out to the last and back, so pink and cyan rays take turns round the middle.

The rays are thin near the centre and widen towards the edges.

Setting	Value
Presets	Neon
Type	Burst
Ray count	16

Lower Ray count to 3 for a few broad petals.

Copper stripes

Slanted copper and brown stripes, each shaded like folded metal, under a soft grain — The Copper preset as Stripe, turned 30°, repeated and mirrored, with grain.

Copper turns on Add noise, so a soft grain sits over the stripes. Each stripe holds the stops twice, and the second run is turned backwards, so the stripes shine like folded metal instead of stepping.

The CSS box holds the same shaded stripes, repeat and mirror included; only the grain stays on the canvas and in the PNG.

Setting	Value
Presets	Copper
Type	Stripe
Stripe count	5
Angle	30
Repeat count	2
Reverse every other one	On

Turn Reverse every other one off to see the hard edges come back.

Aurora spiral

Green, blue and violet arms winding round the middle of the frame — The Aurora preset as a Spiral with a tightness of 3.

Aurora runs from green through blue to violet. The spiral winds that run round the middle; where the violet end meets the green start again, a sharp line shows the arm.

Setting	Value
Presets	Aurora
Type	Spiral
Tightness	3

Raise Tightness for more, thinner arms.