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Particular color gradients – how to get at them?
I’ve been trying to use the Random From Gradient feature in Particular. This does work but I want to make my own gradient and not use one of the very few presets. The manual implies that if you click at the bottom of the column of presets it will generate a blank one to play with and save as another preset. That’s not been my experience.
I can find no way to access these gradients. I’d even be fine with doing it behind the scenes and generating a file that can go into the prefs set up somewhere which would populate the gradient list on app boot. I’d also be ok with just altering one of the presets and living with just those few. I emailed P.A. but got a bounce back.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Not sure if I’d call this a bug now but I have new info. This only seems to be an issue in some cases.
If you go into the designer and pick a particular (no pun intended) effect and then apply and start modifying, you can’t access the color grad or modify it, you can only pic from the dozen preset choices.
But if you pick another effect, that one will let you have access to the grad and make changes (or if you just start from scratch) – you still can’t save and add it as a preset or copy that grad to another instance of particular so you have to remake the grad you have worked on each time. You also can’t expand the grad box to do fine detail node work.
I’d be willing accept that some effects have access to this attribute and some not but when it is needed for the effect to work and when you still have access to the color presets in a macro way, it seems dumb that you can’t access or change the colors themselves. I’d say a software call isn’t being made to the right class or with the right number of args, and I think I will call this a bug.
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