Adobe Designer gradient tool in Photoshop?

AdrienTriangles · Jan 27 2026

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 · Jan 28 2026

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

gnoop · Jan 29 2026

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 · Jan 30 2026

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 · Jan 30 2026

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 · Feb 19 2026

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

gnoop · Feb 20 2026

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 · Feb 21 2026

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.

Adobe Designer gradient tool in Photoshop?

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