Gradiator

 Gradiator is a simple tool to generate randomly dithered gradients.
 Dithered gradients are color slides (gradients) where the pixels
 are slightly scattered around to effectively remove color banding.
 Most drawing packages and other pieces of software only generate
 linear gradients, which are much faster but the resulting images
 often have visible color banding if the gradient is applied to a
 large area.

 Gradiator currently does three kinds of gradients: horizontal,
 vertical and radial. When creating a radial dither, you can change
 the center point of the gradient by clicking on the Preview area
 with the left button of your mouse. Any other button will reset
 the gradient's center point to the center of the area.

 You can save a gradient as an image in a few different formats.
 You can also optionally generate and apply a gradient as your
 Windows wallpaper image by clicking the "Apply bg" button.
 (This will save the background as 'desktop.bmp' in your Windows
  directory.)

 Use the Dither slider to modify the amount of dithering in the
 gradient; from none (banding) to maximum (full dithering, no
 visible banding).

Color selector

 In the Color Selector dialog, you can have five 'favourite
 colors', visible in the bottom left of the dialog. Left click
 on a color to choose it; right click on one of the five colors
 to save the current color. These colors are not saved when the
 program closes.

File saving

 The file formats supported are Windows BMP and PNG. PNG is a
 much better format, allowing for an Alpha channel and much
 better (lossless) compression. You can change the PNG compression
 level from 1 (the least compression) to 10 (maximum). More
 compression means slower saving but potentially much smaller
 filesize.

Credits

 Programming and documentation: hukka
 Idea and radial gradient pseudocode: Tsr

 Contact hukka:
  email hukka@despammed.com
  http://hukka.furtopia.org/