Amazing! Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator


By , June 3rd, 2013 , Tags: , , 0 Comments

The Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator Editor was created by Alex Sirota (iosart). If you like this tool, check out ColorZilla for more advanced tools such as eyedroppers, color pickers, palette editors and website analyzers.

As you might know, HTML5 introduced many exciting features for Web developers. One of the features is the ability to specify gradients using pure CSS3, without having to create any images and use them as repeating backgrounds for gradient effects.

Features

  • Powerful Photoshop-like interface
  • Cross browser CSS output
  • Horizontal, vertical, diagonal and radial gradients
  • Complex multi-stop gradients
  • Opacity support with multiple opacity stops
  • Hex, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla color formats
  • Support for full multi-stop gradients with IE9
  • Import from image (convert image gradient to CSS)
  • Import from existing CSS
  • Adjust gradient by hue, saturation, lightness
  • More than 135 gradient presets
  • Saving custom gradient presets
  • Sass output
  • Flexible preview panel
  • Gradient permalinks for sending and sharing
  • More soon!

What’s new in version 4

  • » Support for radial and diagonal linear gradients
  • » Support for full multi-stop gradients in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) using SVG
  • » Support for Sass SCSS format using Compass mixins (needs latest beta of Compass)
  • » Copy to clipboard button for quickly grabbing the generated code
  • » Easy resizing of preview panel by dragging its corner

Previous versions

  • » Opacity support
    • · Create transparent css gradients, or add fade-in, fade-out, semi-transparency and similar effects
    • · Add any number of opacity stops to your gradient
    • · Supports opacity stops at any position – completely independent of color stops
    • · Automatically switch to rgba/hsla color output mode when transparency is used
    • · Outputs older Internet Explorer opacity format (yes, this will even work with IE6!)
    • · Opacity support when importing from CSS
    • · Supports importing gradients with transparency from an image
  • » Double click on CSS text output to select all of it for easy copying
  • » More robust new algorithm for converting gradient images to CSS, including alpha support
  • » New ‘Adjustments’ panel – tweak your gradient or create new flavors
    • · Adjust hue, saturation and lightness
    • · Reverse current gradient
  • » Added hsl and hsla color format support in CSS output
  • » Added a unique permalink to each gradient for linking to, saving or sharing specific gradients.
  • » Added the ability to toggle CSS comments on/off.
  • » Added support for 4 new gradient formats:
    • · IE 10+
    • · Newer Webkit
    • · Opera 11.10+
    • · W3C
  • » Import from an image – convert an existing gradient image to CSS
    • · Supports complex multi-stop gradients
    • · Upload an image or import from an image URL
  • » Import from CSS – enter existing gradient CSS in various formats and import it into the tool
  • » Save your gradients as new presets
    • · Edit your gradient, enter its name and hit ‘new’
    • · Remove any of your preset gradients using its context menu (right click)
    • · Your gradient presets will be persisted in the tool across sessions
  • » Added rgb and rgba color format support in CSS output
  • » Persist settings across sessions – gradient orientation, preview panel dimensions, output color format etc.
  • » Keyboard shortcuts – press up/down in color stop entry box to increase/decrease value

Help

The main gradient control allows you to:

  • » Adjust the gradient stop position by dragging the stop marker
  • » Adjust the stop color by double clicking on the stop marker
  • » Delete a stop by draggin the stop marker up or down
  • » Add a new stop by clicking anywhere in between the existing stop markers

You can use the ‘Stops’ panel to conrol the color and the position of the currently selected stop more precisely.

The ‘Preview’ panel allows previewing the current gradient as a vertical or horizontal one, and also allows quickly previewing how the Internet Explorer fallback gradient will look in IE.

Finally, the ‘CSS’ panel always has the CSS for the current gradient for easy copying and pasting into your stylesheet. You can also use this panel to import an existing gradient CSS into the tool.

Credits

The ‘Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients’ preset gradients were derived from work by deziner folio and SGlider12.

The Color Picker is a minor adaptation of John Dyer’s Color Picker.

The Base-64 encoder function is from webtoolkit.

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