Save As PNG Adds Hard Transition to Gradient

I have an image that I have created which includes a gradient with a soft transition from the light tone to the dark tone. When I save as PNG, the resulting image displays a hard transition to the gradient. How do I create a PNG image which maintains the subtlety of the gradient?

Well, I found a setting in the Save for Web dialog where the gradient doesn't show as a smooth transition:
But that's only in the Save for Web preview window -- using the browser preview button or saving the file shows a smooth transition....
Ken

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Save As PNG script

Hello,
I'd like some help with this script if possible
I wanted to save my open file to PNG format in the same location with the same name. I managed to do that with the scripts below.
This is a script I found on the forum:
#target photoshop
main();
function main(){
if(!documents.length) return;
try{
    var Path = decodeURI(activeDocument.path.parent);
    }catch(e){return;}
if(!Folder(Path).exists){
    alert(Path + " Does not exist!");
    return;
var Name = decodeURI(app.activeDocument.name).replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
var saveFile = File(Path + "/" + Name + "_bump.png");
sfwPNG24(saveFile);
//Uncomment the line below if you want to close the document.
//app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
function sfwPNG24(saveFile){
var pngOpts = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb;
pngOpts.format = SaveDocumentType.PNG
pngOpts.PNG8 = false;
pngOpts.transparency = true;
pngOpts.interlaced = false;
pngOpts.quality = 100;
activeDocument.exportDocument(new File(saveFile),ExportType.SAVEFORWEB,pngOpts);
And this is how I modified it (so that it saves the file in the same folder and doesn't add any suffix to the name; also changed to save as PNG instead of using save for web):
#target photoshop
main();
function main(){
if(!documents.length) return;
try{
    var Path = decodeURI(activeDocument.path);
    }catch(e){return;}
if(!Folder(Path).exists){
    alert(Path + " Does not exist!");
    return;
var Name = decodeURI(app.activeDocument.name).replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
var saveFile = File(Path + "/" + Name + ".png");
sfwPNG24(saveFile);
//Uncomment the line below if you want to close the document.
//app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
function sfwPNG24(saveFile){
var pngOpts = new PNGSaveOptions;
pngOpts.compression = 9;
pngOpts.interlaced = false;
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, pngOpts, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);
[b]My problem:[/b]
I don't know what's happening when I try to save a file just created (never saved yet). I thought I would get the Alert message but it doesn't seem to be the case (maybe the alert message in the code is related to a different condition?)
I would like to have a default folder/path in the code so that, if the file hasn't been saved yet, it would be saved in the specified location.
If anyone could do it I would really appreciate it!
Thanks

did not get that far.... Your catch ended the script without a notice to you. Try the changed line below in the catch.
#target photoshop
main();
function main(){
if(!documents.length) return;
try{
    var Path = decodeURI(activeDocument.path);
    }catch(e){alert(e); return;}   //Let the user know about the problem
if(!Folder(Path).exists){
    alert(Path + " Does not exist!");
    return;
var Name = decodeURI(app.activeDocument.name).replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
var saveFile = File(Path + "/" + Name + ".png");
sfwPNG24(saveFile);
//Uncomment the line below if you want to close the document.
//app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
function sfwPNG24(saveFile){
var pngOpts = new PNGSaveOptions;
pngOpts.compression = 9;
pngOpts.interlaced = false;
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, pngOpts, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);

Trying to save a png for web, and trnsparency is not working, i have never had this problem before

I am trying to save for web, a png with a transparent background, and even though I clicked the transparency check box, it is still producing an image with a white background, when exporting the png the transparency works fine, so I know it has nothing to do with the layers. Help!

b,
I believe it is time for the list. Hopefully, it is one of the easy ones at the top; 5) is probably irrelevant for this case.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file, and when it is not caused by issues with opening a file from external media, see below. You may have tried/done some of them already; 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save current artwork first, of course.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html
External media: It is always recommended here to open/save from/to own hard disk, and to copy from/to networks and removable media. You may be lucky (for a while), but the chances of file corruption and other unpleasantnesses are immensely greater when you use anything but the harddisk, and it is better to be safe than sorry.
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http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/illustrator-support-networks-removable-media.html

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Try this...
Click EDIT/TRANSITION OVERLAP/HALF. This will maintain project duration.
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There are good diagrams explaining this in iMovie/Help.

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here is a video from youtube as well
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I have a band video that I want to edit. In iMove 09, I could clip to crop or add a transition or both without altering the audio. In iMovie 11, the audio lower or drops out when I clip for and use a transtion. Is there a setting to preven this?

Thanks for that info! Even in my time answering questions on iMovie Discussion Group, I never had a good understanding of when and how Optimize Movie came into play. I always would import as Optimized and Large Size and figured that was good enough. But knowing you got much, much more flexibility doing it the way you describe gives me a much better understanding of the different routes you can take into the Event Library.

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Is there any way of exporting a clip (example 1 hour) into 4 seperate 15 min clips at the same time? Or does anyone have any ideas along the same lines to save time? Add my skype baconhousevidz if you can help or are unsure of what im asking
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BaconHouseVidz wrote:
… at the same time…
in hope to speed things up?
no, no effect.

Why is it, if i have one video clip in the timeline, i can't just add a transition at the end of that solo clip to fade to black!?! please help!

hey there, so im making a video for a family event..
i drag in an audio clip all of a sudden this becomes the be all and end all, and i want to sync some vid clips to that audio track, so let's say i drag in a 10 second video clip, at the end of the 10 seconds, i want to add a transition to fade to black.. i go to the transition window.. choose the cross dissolve or fade to colour, but it will not allow me to drag it on that video clip.. it always ends up on the audio track. this bloody application is so confusing compared to final cut. please help!

Ahhh, now I see the problem, Grasshopper. Problem is, we are all Grasshoppers, here.
Yes, that little piece of info is critical. I'd say the biggest difficulty with FCPX is the whole new language.
If I read you correctly, your Audio is in the Main Storyline (Track 1 in plain old Editorese). This makes anything else you add (above or below) a "connected clip", which we can no longer think of as "Track 2" because Jobs sez so. So, yes, you cannot just add a transition to either end of a connected clip.
No argument with Tracy's solution, because I haven't seen any other general solution presented for any attempt to treat connected clips as the main storyline. And, of course, when they were "track 1" and "track 2", you could.
An alternative solution, however, is to highlight the connected clip and press Ctrl-V to bring up the Video Animation Editor. Click the "reveal button" for Compositing: Opacity (bottom, right). Once open, there is a "fade handle" to the right top. Drag it left for however much fade you wish. (there is one on the left as well, but you were only talking about a fade-out.)
A second alternative, perhaps for future projects where everything keys on audio, may be to create a Gap clip (used to be called slug) in the primary storyline before ever dropping in the audio. Then you can add video to the main story line and modify it without having to go thru hoops to do the simplest thing.

[SOLVED] GIMP is unable to save an PNG

Hello,
when I try to save an PNG within GIMP I get the following message:
Saving '/home/alex/test.png' failed:
Error while saving '/home/alex/test.png'. Could not save image.
This is my commandline output:
libpng error: known incorrect sRGB profile
(file-png:5692): GLib-WARNING **: (gerror.c:390):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain != 0)
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Alex
Last edited by oelfe (2013-05-28 13:08:55)

I've been having the same problem for a while now, since the libpng update a couple of weeks ago.
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After the update, the export would just simply blank out (0KB) the original file and give the same error message.
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Last edited by adrianx (2013-05-27 21:22:42)

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rob at the orchard wrote:
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harlemflash wrote:
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hi all,
i am a long time user but have not spent enough consistent time to avoid some very bad habits. i thought i would take some time to see if i can fix some of these. apologies for the multiple posts today.
anyway, i am sometimes in a situation where i need to save images as png at a certain size or something for a website (or just because i like to save out as png) and in many cases i am not using any optimizations in psd files.
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right now i think i have to do a pulldown every time i want a png and when i am trying to do some kind of "batch processing" i am getting a bit of carpal tunnel with all my clickthroughs.
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