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This one's a neat effect using new multi-colored gradients. You may not ever need a rainbow but when you're finished you'll be comfortable with this feature.
I'll start using a new 300x300 image. (Example images are sized down to save space)
First prepare the layer palette putting 2 layers on top of the background. Call the top layer Cutout and the one underneath it Gradient so your layer palette looks like this.
Now activate the selection tool and set circle and antialias on the tool options panel and make sure Cutout is the active layer.
Place cursor in center of image, using the status bar to line up at exact center. (150,150) Drag to make one large circle and fill with color.
Go to the selections menu and save to alpha channel.
Deselect then go to image/resize. Make sure resize all layers is unchecked and maintain aspect ratio is selected. Choose percentage of original and type 65 in either field. Click OK
Activate the selection tool again and create a selection completely outside the circle. Now click inside the selection to snap the selection to the circle.
Now save this new selection to alpha channel.
Make the Gradient layer active and go to selections/load from alpha channel and choose the original selection (selection #0)
In order for the setings you're working with for the next part to match this tut and make things easier, load these two colors from the basic color settings on to your color palette.
As foreground color R-255 G-0 B-0
As background color R-0 G-0 B-192
Now activate the flood fill tool and on the the tool options palette click the bucket icon so you're on the first panel. Choose Sunburst Gradient as fill style leaving other settings at default so your palette looks like this.
Next click the gradient tab next to the paint bucket icon to display the gradient panel. Here the last settings used will be displayed. Load Violent-Orange into the gradient window. Make sure 0 is set for repeats and horizontal and vertical are at 50.
Now click the edit tab to open the gradient editor. Click on new and enter "rainbow" to save the new settings. The middle portion of your window that we'll be working with should now look like this.
Notice the two thumbs on the slider bar are colored with the current custom color and the thumb on the left has a black tip. This black tip denotes the active thumb. Clicking on any thumb makes it active and clicking either the Fore, Back, or Custom buttons applies the color displayed to the active thumb.
Now let's get a feel for how things work here. Make the left thumb active and click the Fore button, then make the right thumb active and click the Back button. The location setting changes with the active thumb to denote its position on the slider. Now take the right thumb and slide towards the middle to location 50%. Notice the empty diamond above the slider moves with the thumb. That diamond denotes the midpoint between two thumbs. Click on the midpoint and it turns black to show it's now active and the location window shows the default of 50%, denoting the even blend point between two thumbs. Slide the midpoint to adjust the blending point.
With a feel for how things work, let's start making our gradient. The first thing to take into account is that if we ever want to recall this saved setting, any thumbs that have a foreground or background color applied to them will always take on the colors currently displayed on the color palette. The best way around this is to apply custom colors to each of the thumbs so, in turn, activate the right thumb, click custom colors and apply the same blue then repeat for the left thumb applying red.
You should now be back to a window that looks like this.
Now take the blue thumb and slide over to the left to location 72% (You can also just make that thumb active and manually enter the location setting.) Next we're going to add another thumb. To do that just place the cursor to the left of the blue thumb and click.
With the new thumb active, place at location 65% and add a custom color. Here I've used a bright green off the basic colors of R-0 G-255 B-0.
If you want to see how things are taking shape click OK in this window and apply the gradient to the image. (You can come right back to this window by clicking edit on tool options.) Notice that the thumbs to the right make up the outer colors of our circle and thumbs to the left are the inner color.
Now we'll continue adding thumbs of different colors, locating each additional thumb 7% down from the last one and adding custom colors. So the next thumbs added are
Location 58, R-255 G-0 B-255
Location 51, R-255 G-255 B-0
Slide the left red thumb over to Location 44
Now apply the the fill with these settings and your image should look like this.
The purpose of the inner circle here was to use it as a basic guide of where to stop adding colors to create the desired arch. Since not quite enough of the last red gradient is showing we'll make adjustments. Make sure the gradient layer remains active and hide the visabilty of the cutout layer. Now load Selection 1 from alpha channel. Go to selections/modify/contract and enter 10. Now delete the rest of the inner circle by pressing delete, Ctrl+X or edit cut. All that's left is to cut off the bottom portion of the circle so activate the selection tool and set to rectangle. Start all the way to the left and use the status bar to place the cursor at height coordinates 150. Draw a selection around the bottom portion of the circle and delete.
That's it.
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