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From Quick Guide: Adobe Photoshop 101

Summary: How to use the gradient overlay style in Adobe Photoshop; learn more about photo editing software in this free instructional video.

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Jimmy Hartman has spent the last six years studying computer graphics and motion graphics. He spends much of his time editing photos and videos for his business, TriCam Media, which...read more

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"JIMMY HARTMAN: Hi, this is Jimmy Hartman on behalf of Expert Village. And in this clip, we'll be looking at the Gradient Overlay layer style. Okay, let's go and apply our Gradient Overlay here by selecting it. Now, as you can see, it's done the same thing as our Color Overlay except it's applied to gradient. This works, again, with texture or any other effects, and you can go and add effects and you still have your same overlay there. They have a few different options though on this one. We've got our Blending mode and Opacity again. We can change our gradient here to any specified presets. Or if we go ahead and click inside of this button, we can change the colors manually and apply our own gradients here. We're going to play around and see how things work, pretty simple there. We've got our style. We have a linear gradient which is basically--it starts from one area and just goes straight down. We've got our radial gradient which would start at the center and then radiate outwards applying the gradient in a radial pattern. We've got an angle gradient which is kinda hard to see in--with this gradient. So I'm going to select a normal gradient here. Basically, according to your angle here, the gradient starts at a specified angle and it rotates around changing to the next color, which you can click this reverse button here to basically reverse our gradient. As you can see, it's dark blue to light blue, light blue to dark blue, pretty simple there. We've got a reflected gradient which is basically as if you were to apply the gradient in the middle here your gradient would go downward and then it would reflect upward. And you have a diamond gradient, again self-explanatory there. You can also change the scale of your gradient here to make it larger or smaller as you like."

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