Adobe Designer gradient tool in Photoshop?

AdrienTriangles

Hi
Adobe Designer gradient node comes with a great fast color picker. While Photoshop picker requires to pick tones one by one.

How could I be as fast in Photoshop? (currently either using SD and copying over to PS either using Random them remapping colours)

Eric Chadwick

Perhaps you could make a SBSAR and load it in PS?

gnoop

AdrienTriangles said:

Hi
Adobe Designer gradient node comes with a great fast color picker. While Photoshop picker requires to pick tones one by one.

How could I be as fast in Photoshop? (currently either using SD and copying over to PS either using Random them remapping colours)

It's now in library panel . window>library.    You hit small plus in the bottom of the panel and chose "extract from image"   . in opened dialog  chose gradient  tab and it work same way as in designer mostly.      it creates a library item available online  , you can right click it and chose "create gradient preset"   then it will be available for gradient map.  

For my taste  picking works a bit more convenient than in designer  but overall too many extra clicks .

AdrienTriangles

Will check both answers thank you . 
When using the CC Library gradient option (not too bad ; many extra click ; better than nothing!) 
Then how do you use that same gradient for a “Gradient Transfer Curve”  ? from Image menu 
A sbsar using the dynamic gradient could be as efficient - Just not sure if my licence is up to date for sbsar usage.

gnoop

AdrienTriangles said:

Will check both answers thank you . 
When using the CC Library gradient option (not too bad ; many extra click ; better than nothing!) 
Then how do you use that same gradient for a “Gradient Transfer Curve”  ? from Image menu 
A sbsar using the dynamic gradient could be as efficient - Just not sure if my licence is up to date for sbsar usage.

I am not sure whats "gradient transfer curve"  in Photoshop but it's sounding like "gradient map"  . To have library panel gradient preset available  you need to right click it there (in library panel) and chose "create gradient preset"     . it will copy the preset to last used gradient presets folder .   Then it's available for gradient map when you click gradient stripe in properties panel.

As of sbsars  they are  in window>materials .  You can use  +  there to add your custom sbsar.   But gradient node in Substance Designer doesn't have exposable parameters  so it wouldn't give you anything imo.  

poopipe

you could probably build something that samples <n> points along a spline  - assuming photoshop supports the spline nodes 

gnoop

I tried to ask GPT  to do me a script .  The problem was the scripting doesn't have access to gradient editor.  It could sample  and make a pixel  stripe  but then you would have to use default gradient capture in cloud library panel .     Although they have new  UPX scripting now, maybe it could    but  chatGPT  couldn't write me a single working thing  using it.  Not enough examples my guess .   

poopipe

no idea I'm afraid - i've not touched photoshop since '21 and the last time someone asked me to write a script for it they never found the body

I've not used the in-photoshop substance nodes but assuming there's support.. 
You 'should' be able to sample n points along a spline/curve to generate a gradient  (just lerp from point to point in a pixel processor) and feed that to a dynamic gradient map node that maps the values to your input texture.