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Because this forum is for more than just posting new strips.

I can't remember the strip it's from, and I don't have time in the two hours per week I have to use the Internet to track it down, but Joe3210's avatar (I think it's his)... the one with this spiky gold-and-yellow gradient behind it. Whoever did that strip, how did you get that effect? Because I've been trying to get it for a picture I drew, and I can't find the filter anywhere. I figured you just applied a plain circular gradient and then used some kind of distortion filter on it.

It's from this strip:
http://www.houserules.org.uk/index.php? ... e=20060616
And then later I made a wallpaper out of it:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/ ... 00x600.jpg

What I did was indeed a radial gradient. But the total effect was actually just done by putting two layers over each other. The bottom one had the radial gradient, and the top one had a circular gradient that was transparent in the middle and fully opaque at the edge. And then just fiddled with the colours a bit, there you go.