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Adding gradient layers

Adding gradient layers - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding gradient layers

In this exercise we're going to add a couple of gradients, one is going to be a gradient layer that casts a shadow down at the bottom portion of the image so that the special guest is entirely legible. And the other is going to be a gradient stroke that's going to come in from the right-hand side, and you can see these ingredients in the final composition Martini Hour banner.psd. I've gone ahead and saved my progress so far as Glasses in space.psd found inside the 10_layers folder, and I'm going to bring up my Layers panel by pressing F7. I'll click on the purplish layer to make it active, and I'm going to drop down to this black-white icon, press and hold the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac. Click and hold on this black-white icon and choose one of the top commands Gradient from the menu. And because I have all Alt or Option down it brings up the New Layer dialog box and I'll call this dark gradient just so that I know what its purpose is and in this checkbox Use Previous Layer…

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