Are people so inept with PS they need stock sites for gradients?

are people so inept with social interaction that they are forced to scuttle away beneath comment areas in semi-obscure message boards?

lol

I don’t think it’s ‘you’re an idiot at gradients so use these’ so much as grouped inspiration for different themes of design.

So if you’re designing something candy-like with pastel colours (heaven knows why) you can just grab a quick set of gradients that provide variations you can quickly select instead of playing around for a while trying to find the colours you want.

Saying that I don’t think I’ll ever really use them. Experimenting with colour is fun.

NERD FIGHT!! LOL

I’m gonna have to agree whole heartedly with Nathan on this one.
anything that saves you even a smidgen of time is worthwhile!

In fact, people fail to see the best target audience for sites like these…. YOUR CLIENTS!

Send them there (and have THEM waste a few hours playing with various gradient fills and colors) THEN come back to you with something specific! ( It’s like giving an annoying cat a BALL OF YARN or a CATNIP MOUSE) keeps them busy and out of your hair for an hour or two or three.

If you are scared of possibly sending business to the competition, then clone the site (how hard is it to make a site full of gradients?) and send them to that!

Hello Mark,
I’m the author of the post. You must know that I detect illegal copies of my content and proceed very often to claim copyright infringements to the hosts.

All hosts are very serious about this, and copying another people content can cause the deletion of your website or cancellation of your domain name.

Each week, I denounce many of these copies. The hosts may take between 6 hours or 24 often, sometimes more (even a week) but they always end acting against this.

It is also a shame that you have a graphics design business and you copy the others. This indicates the kind of person and professional that you are.

Admin edit: Please refrain from using profanity

AGAIN I say to all, “(how hard is it to make a site full of gradients?)”

For ONE thing, your so called “content” is just an amalgamation of OTHER PEOPLE’S CONTENT, a Noupe like LINK REFERRAL machine, “copyright my ass”

For all who want to know how it’s REALLY done
http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/images-php-gd-gradient-fill/

And you create two text boxes where the user types in (or selects from a color bar) the start and end colors for the gradient they want to play with- DONE! in 2 pages of code or less!

And in conclusion to you Emma Degenerez and your ‘copyright claims’ I say BEGONE you scurrilous ‘web regurgitator!’

P.S. I hope you realize that filing a DMCA Copyright claim requires you to give your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS and SWEAR under penalty of perjury that you have
a) Ownership of the content or are authorized to act on behalf of the content holder
b) Explicitly identified the content
Frivolous claims are subject to legal remedies by law.

Anyone having to deal with spurious claims can use this template as a starting point
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Terrorism/form-letter.html

*OWNED, byatch!*

pwned!...

Emma, I’m with Mark. FTW are you on about? Firstly, the page in question on your site is merely a collection of other people’s work!

Yes, it’s annoying for someone to directly plagiarise your work and in many cases legal action may be necessary, especially in the case of bigger clients.

But you are a perfect example of the kind of arseholes who get some kind of pleasure from bringing other people down; like an online version of a traffic cop pulling you over for doing 32 in a 30 zone.

The web is all about sharing content and information for the benefit of others. I understand that you would be angry if Mark was to completely rip off your site for financial benefits, but at the end of the day people are doing it all the time - look at every CSS showcase gallery.

Coming on here and bragging about how many fellow designers you’ve shot down or took legal action upon just makes you sound like a prick. This entire website is built upon sharing other people’s work, news, advice and inspiration!

Lecturing us with legal arrogance doesn’t make you sound professional, it makes you sound petty. I hope you don’t take this as a personal attack but a relative retort to the pathetic statement you made.

Otherwise, thanks for your gradients :)

I did not menace anyone with a claim. I just was angry because of this: “If you are scared of possibly sending business to the competition, then clone the site” (Mark)
That sounds like encouraging to copy.
(PS Mark, I have filled many DMCA forms, indeed)

My article is a recopilation of gradients done by artists, and I link to their pages. This is a way of supporting other artists. Sometimes they also support me linking my works.

I want to share, but not want to be copied.

And if it so easy to make recopilations, why don’t you do the same?

** Apologies for my profanity **