I'm a tyro when it comes to using Photoshop's infinite options so please forgive my flawed terminology. I read your "Gorgeous Gradients" page, played around PS, but can't accomplish what a friend asks of me. She wants to duplicate the appearance of a custom folder printed by off-set press a decade ago on a web page.
QUESTION: Is it possible to create a dotted "screened gradient fill" long narrow GIF stripe using Photoshop 5.5 for a web page background... running from dark green to nearly white. If so, HOW???
Her brochure cover appears to be a screened gradient, i.e., dots of (Pantone PMS 5565??) on a white background. Looks similar to the color your forum uses to contrast against white text, e.g., FROM and Type Your Message. Page source says it's #3c8b8b.
On one side of the brochure, the green dots are largest giving the impression of an almost solid green. By the middle of the page the green dots have shrunk enough that the eye discerns a diamond grid pattern, 50/50 w/the white. By the far right, the green dots have shrunk further so mostly white shows.
I'm not even sure if Gradient is right tool. Maybe I should somehow modify Opacity? Or is there a BLEND Tool? Using a magnifying glass, I count approx. 40 dots per inch. If I could specify colors by hex, RGB or pantone in my drawing package, I'd set a Blend (like my draw package) to 400 iterations with the green dot on the far left side just a fraction larger than 10" away on the right.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. FYI- her printer long since closed his shop. No records, no printing plates, nada.
QUESTION: Is it possible to create a dotted "screened gradient fill" long narrow GIF stripe using Photoshop 5.5 for a web page background... running from dark green to nearly white. If so, HOW???
Her brochure cover appears to be a screened gradient, i.e., dots of (Pantone PMS 5565??) on a white background. Looks similar to the color your forum uses to contrast against white text, e.g., FROM and Type Your Message. Page source says it's #3c8b8b.
On one side of the brochure, the green dots are largest giving the impression of an almost solid green. By the middle of the page the green dots have shrunk enough that the eye discerns a diamond grid pattern, 50/50 w/the white. By the far right, the green dots have shrunk further so mostly white shows.
I'm not even sure if Gradient is right tool. Maybe I should somehow modify Opacity? Or is there a BLEND Tool? Using a magnifying glass, I count approx. 40 dots per inch. If I could specify colors by hex, RGB or pantone in my drawing package, I'd set a Blend (like my draw package) to 400 iterations with the green dot on the far left side just a fraction larger than 10" away on the right.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. FYI- her printer long since closed his shop. No records, no printing plates, nada.
