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😺NKD Gradient Map / 😺NKD Gradient Generate

Both share one color-ramp editor: click the bar to add a stop, click a stop for the native color picker, drag to move, Shift-click to remove. You can save and load your own ramps as presets.

Gradient Map

Recolors a photo by brightness, so darks land on one end of the ramp and lights on the other. Duotone, teal-orange, any color grade.

  • Invert flips the ramp, Strength dials the effect back.
  • The optional mask limits where it lands.
  • The preview updates as you edit the ramp, and its play button previews the grade even when the image comes through a resize or a subgraph.
NKD.Gradient.map.mp4

Gradient Generate

Makes a gradient image from scratch, no input needed, as a background, a mask or a ramp source.

  • Four shapes: Linear, Radial, Angular (conic) and Diamond.
  • A Photoshop-style on-canvas gizmo lets you drag two handles right on the preview to set direction, center and extent instead of typing numbers, plus a midpoint diamond to bias where the 50% color lands. Feed it width/height and the gizmo adapts to that aspect ratio.
  • Connect the optional image and it takes that image's size, so you don't have to wire width/height by hand.
  • blend_mode (multiply, screen, overlay, soft/hard light, add, difference, darken, lighten) composites the gradient straight over that image at opacity, which covers light leaks, vignettes and sky grads without a separate blend node. Leave it on none to use the image purely as a size reference and get the bare gradient.
  • The mask output is always the gradient's own falloff.

The preview shows the composite live.

NKD.Gradient.Generate.mp4

← All 😺NKD Basic Tools nodes