Hi, I am wondering how I can make the colorersI use on my sites more shiny style instead of the plain bland look. How can I do this?
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Polish your monitor? 
Seriously, do you have example links to “bland” and “shiny” color? This may
help us understand what you are looking for.
Hi, I am wondering how I can make the colorersI use on my sites more
shiny style instead of the plain bland look. How can I do this?
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I am wondering how I can make the colorersI use on my sites more shiny
Awesome - I want this too!
Walter can you please write a ShinyColour action. Or ShinyColor for the US market.
D
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Well, you could use gradient background colors with a little white shine near the top, that always looks nice and shiny. Seriously, I have an application called Spectrum that makes all that sort of CSS for me. It’s ~$5 in the MAS, if I recall correctly, although that might have been an intro price.
Walter
On Aug 7, 2013, at 4:56 PM, DeltaDave wrote:
I am wondering how I can make the colorersI use on my sites more shiny
Awesome - I want this too!
Walter can you please write a ShinyColour action. Or ShinyColor for the US market.
D
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It’s $20 now. Assuming it’s the same app.
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On August 7, 2013 at 3:59:55 PM, Walter Lee Davis (email@hidden) wrote:
I have an application called Spectrum that makes all that sort of CSS for me. It’s ~$5 in the MAS, if I recall correctly, although that might have been an intro price.
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I had the name wrong, it’s called Gradient. Here’s the US MAS link, you’ll have to hunt for it in the EU and elsewhere.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gradient/id481981128?mt=12
It is only $5 in the US store.
Walter
On Aug 7, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Todd wrote:
It’s $20 now. Assuming it’s the same app.
Todd
http://xiiro.comOn August 7, 2013 at 3:59:55 PM, Walter Lee Davis (email@hidden) wrote:
I have an application called Spectrum that makes all that sort of CSS for me. It’s ~$5 in the MAS, if I recall correctly, although that might have been an intro price.
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I had the name wrong, it’s called Gradient. Here’s the US MAS link, you’ll have to hunt for it in the EU and elsewhere.
Forgot that I had it Walter - probably after a previous recommendation of yours!
D
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Here’s where I go to save $5
Are gradients any shinier than solid colors?
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Gradients can make things look very shiny – recall the first-generation Aqua buttons in Mac OS X. “Lickable”, as Our Eternal Leader used to say.
Walter
On Aug 7, 2013, at 5:19 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Here’s where I go to save $5
http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/Are gradients any shinier than solid colors?
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Lickable color. Disturbing and yet somehow, yummy 
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Gradients can make things look very shiny – recall the first-generation
Aqua buttons in Mac OS X. “Lickable”, as Our Eternal Leader used to say.
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http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/shiny.html
Walter
On Aug 7, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Gradients can make things look very shiny – recall the first-generation Aqua buttons in Mac OS X. “Lickable”, as Our Eternal Leader used to say.
Walter
On Aug 7, 2013, at 5:19 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Here’s where I go to save $5
http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/Are gradients any shinier than solid colors?
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That is a little vague, but I’ll take a shot:
You can liven up an object by applying an inner shadow or inner glow effect. Set the background to one color and the shadow to another, then adjust the angle, depth and blurriness. (I am not a fan of this, as it is a bit clunky and it can sometimes not work well.)
On graphic objects you can also use the Fillmaster Action.
To pick interesting colors and try out gradients, go to <http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colormixer.asp?
If you are going for a gumdrop look, etc. use Photoshop. To use a gradient fill, I recommend creating a gradient in Photoshop (gradient tool or by hand), resize as necessary (and add smoothing or other effects) the chop it down to a width of 1 pixel. You can then tile it inside an object. To create a translucent gradient, output it as a PNG.
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Correction: At least 25 pixels, in the direction of tiling. Using less than this makes a memory bomb for the browser.
Walter
On Aug 7, 2013, at 6:07 PM, Trey Yancy wrote:
width of 1 pixel.
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That’s something I have been using since the dinosaur days. I hadn’t encountered an issue. Is this with a specific browser or browser version?
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Okay, tooling around the web I found this interesting (but old) ((but still
interesting)) article on SVG gradients instead of CSS3 -
Then, within that article I followed a link to a really interesting
article on the “cicada principle” and discovered that you can use CSS to
have more than one background image or image tile -
Also, if we are going to have likable color, then perhaps Apple should come
out with flavored screens. Mine doesn’t taste so good. 
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I think we are moving from Skittles to Sweetarts
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Like this? http://xiiro.com/demo/multiple-images/index.html
Todd
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On August 7, 2013 at 5:26:23 PM, Ernie Simpson (email@hidden) wrote:
Then, within that article I followed a link to a really interesting
article on the “cicada principle” and discovered that you can use CSS to
have more than one background image
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By shiny I mean something with an edge, look at the header on this site, it’s shiny compared to the standard black colour. http://www.next.co.uk/
Hope this helps lol
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Okay, so Gradients. Even the big image has a center-focus glow.
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By shiny I mean something with an edge, look at the header on this site,
it’s shiny compared to the standard black colour. http://www.next.co.uk/Hope this helps lol
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By shiny I mean something with an edge
Whereas the rest of the world thinks something completely different.
That is why it is so important to give an accurate description/example of what you are trying to achieve.
You know what you want - you have to tell us in language we understand.
So in conclusion the gradient plan is going to give you what you want.
David
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