Selecting Gradient Colors

Hello,
Harry asked me that he was not able to understand the concept of how to select the gradient colors. I told him that you now how to select the gradient tool, (refer to the previous blogs)the gradient options appear on the Options Bar. The color bar allows you to set the, gradient colors. If you click on the pull down menu, you
you can select any of the displayed color combination. (If you hold your mouse over any of the choices, you will see a text description of it.) The upper left hand corner always displays the default combination, a gradient from the foreground color to the background color. By setting your foreground and background colors on the toolbox, you can easily define your own simple gradient.


The circle button with the black arrow (circled in red here) provides a fly-out menu with more gradient options. This menu lets you load more gradients, save modified gradients, gradients shapes, rename gradients and reset the gradient selection to Photoshop's default values. The bottom grouping is a list of other gradients families that can be used if desired by the user.


Editing Gradient Colors

If you want to make changes in one or more of the colors in your chosen gradient, you can click on it the options bar to open the Gradient Editor dialog box. For example, clicking on this gradient.


This will display this Gradient Editor dialog box :
The Color Stops appearing below the gradient marks of the each colors in the gradient. To change a color, double click on its Color Stop; the color picker will open, allowing you to select a new color. You can also add more Color Stops by clicking between the existing Stops. To remove a color, simply drag its Color Stop away from the gradient.

Saving an Image

Now that you've changed the image, let's save it: select Save from the File menu. Photoshop should select the directory from which the image was loaded and should choose Photoshop's PSD file format as the image format.


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