Select your Foreground and Background colors. Select the area you wish to apply the gradient to. From the Toolbox , select the Gradient Tool. The Gradient Tool Options toolbar appears near the top of your screen. On the Gradient Tool Options toolbar, from the Gradient Options pull-down list, select a gradient fill option. Creates a gradient which spans from one side to the other side of the layer or selection. Follows the direction of the mouse path.
Creates a circular gradient based on the center point and radius that you specify by dragging the mouse. The outermost color in the gradient expands across the entire layer or selection. Creates a gradient reflected from the center; design is reflected either vertically or horizontally.
Optional Adjust the Opacity slider bar until you reach the desired opacity setting. The gradient tool has five operating modes: linear, radial, angle, reflected and diamond. In Figure 3 below you can see examples of how each of these modes will affect the way a gradient will fill an image.
These following steps show how you can use the Gradient Editor dialog to create a new gradient setting or customize an existing one. This opened the Color Picker, where I could choose a new color for the start of the gradient. In this example, I picked an orange color. Notice how the lower part of the dialog displays the opacity and positioning of the new stop. And you can position this transparency stop anywhere along the gradient scale and drag the diamond-shaped midpoints to adjust the midpoint axis.
When the gradient editing was complete all I had to do was to click on the New button and give the gradient a name. The new gradient would be saved and added as a new gradient preset.
Noise gradients are based on a random distribution of colors between a specified color range, but note that any settings made in the Solid Gradient Editor will have no bearing on the appearance of the noise gradient. The Roughness amount determines the smoothness of a noise gradient and the Color model settings allow you to edit the range of colors used. One of the best ways to experiment with this feature is to click on the Randomize button and adjust the settings from there.
Noise gradient settings can also be saved the same way as you can with solid gradients. Double-click the color stop, or click the color swatch in the Stops section of the dialog box. Choose a color, and click OK. Position the pointer over the gradient bar the pointer turns into the eyedropper , and click to sample a color, or click anywhere in the image to sample a color from the image.
Click the corresponding color stop, and enter a value for Location in the Stops section of the dialog box. New presets are saved in a Preferences file.
If this file is deleted or damaged, or if you reset presets to the default library, the new presets will be lost. To permanently save new presets, save them in a library. Each gradient fill contains settings that control the opacity of the fill at different locations on the gradient. The checkerboard pattern indicates the amount of transparency in the gradient preview. A noise gradient is a gradient that contains randomly distributed colors within the range of colors that you specify.
Changes the color components you can adjust. For each component, drag the sliders to define the range of acceptable values. For example, if you choose the HSB model, you can restrict the gradient to blue-green hues, high saturation, and medium brightness. Restrict Colors. Add Transparency. Randomly creates a gradient that conforms to the settings above. Click the button until you find a setting you like.
Buy Adobe Photoshop or start a Free Trial. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Buy now. Gradients Search. Make it. Apply a gradient fill. You cannot use the Gradient tool with bitmap or indexed-color images. To fill part of the image, select the desired area. Otherwise, the gradient fill is applied to the entire active layer.
Select the Gradient tool. If the tool isn't visible, hold down the Paint Bucket tool. In the options bar, choose a fill from the wide gradient sample:. Click the triangle next to the sample to pick a preset gradient fill. Select an option to determine how the starting point where the mouse is pressed and ending point where the mouse is released affect gradient appearance.
Shades from the starting point to the ending point in a straight line. Shades from the starting point to the ending point in a circular pattern. Shades in a counterclockwise sweep around the starting point. Mirrors the same linear gradient on either side of the starting point. Shades from the middle to the outer corners of a diamond pattern.
Do the following in the options bar:. To reverse the order of colors in the gradient fill, select Reverse. To create a smoother blend with less banding, select Dither. Position the pointer in the image where you want to set the starting point of the gradient, and drag to define the ending point. Select a gradient in the Gradients panel Updated in Photoshop How to use new Presets in Photoshop. Learn all about applying Photoshop's new and improved Presets panels.
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To apply a gradient to text layers as a layer effect , do any of the following: Select one or more text layers in the Layers panel and then click any gradient in the Gradients panel to apply it. Drag a gradient from the Gradients panel onto the text content on the canvas area.
Drag a gradient from the Gradients panel onto a layer in the Layers panel. To apply a gradient to a shape layer as shape fill , do any of the following: Select one or more text layers in the Layers panel and then click any gradient in the Gradients panel to apply it. To apply a gradient to pixel layers , do the following: Drag a gradient from the Gradients panel onto a pixel layer in the Layers panel.
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