Fine-tuning the background

- Now that we've removed our unwanted objects,…let's go back into Photoshop and finesse the background,…just to make it pop.…We've already saved our image,…and we saw how we had our changes on these edit layers,…and what I want to do now is combine…all these layers into one,…but I still want to keep the original layers.…So I'm going to press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E,…and what that just did was it took all the layers…that are visible and it made it into one.…So, if I were to hide these layers,…notice it doesn't affect anything.…

So, here's the original layer,…and here's a combination of…all these layers, from here down.…So now that we're on this layer,…let's create one more new layer,…and on this blank layer is where…we're going to start making all these changes.…From here, let's select the Gradient tool,…and the colors, I want to come in…and change the color to a nice blue,…right about here.…

Select OK.…Now, from up here, the dropdown menu,…instead of going from blue to white,…we want to go from blue to transparent.…Select OK.…