Creating Gradient for Photoshop Flesh Texture

Series Summary

There was a time when the creation of a drop shadow in Photoshop necessitated a physics degree and three advanced courses in technical manual lingo. But thanks to the continuing advances of this outstanding software, such a Herculean feat can now be accomplished with the press of a button. Just tell the program a few basic parameters, press enter, and then adjust your handiwork as you watch it change. Perhaps this and other advances explained in this series will not change the world, but for graphic designers and production artists, the revolution has begun! Much more than simple drop shadows, the latest version of Photoshop allows you to create a variety of special effects. Learn how to create flesh texture using the gradient tool as well as the hue and saturation controls.

Video Transcript

"Now, to start with this texture, what we're going to do is we're going to start with a new folder, or a new document and we're going to create some lines in it. So, let's look at what we've got here. First what I 'm going to do though, is I'm going to take this, and we're not going to do that, but I'm going to hold command, backspace, or command delete on your Mac; control, backspace; PC, and what this will do is this will fill it in black. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to come up here, and I want to hit my gradient tool, and actually I'm going to hold it down until I get that gradient tool; that's the one I want. We're going to choose this right here though, one with line. I'm going to grab that, and I'm going to take this off for difference, so let's go back to color up here, or normal. There we go, and I'm going to choose my foreground color. Let's do this a red, and I'll just key this in. That's going to be like; I think it should be something like FF00000 all the way down; nice red. Oops, there we go. Let's bring this back, and we'll stop here, and we'll pick this up in the next section."