Adding a gradient

- What's required now is something perhaps … to add a bit of shading to the graphics … so it just becomes a little bit more believable. … So what I'm going to do … is long press on the plus icon on the right-hand side … in the interface in the options here … and add a brand new layer. … I then need to focus my efforts … on the poster and what I'm going to do … is use the underlaying layer … to generate me a selection. … So if I tap on that layer to make it active, … I can then go to the ellipsis … at the bottom on the right-hand side … and choose load as selection. … And that's a really useful thing to be able to do … and you can do it as well from layer masks, … which we'll see elsewhere in this course. … Very, very handy. … I'll then make sure that I return my focus … to the layer above by simply tapping on it. … And then I'm going to add a gradient. … Now the gradient tool is nested with the fill tool. … That's the bucket on the left-hand side. … So if I long press, I get those options like so. …