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- How Did You Do That?
- Adding a Decorative Border
- Creating a Gradient Fill
- Adding a Vignette to a Portrait
- Creating a High-Contrast Black-and-White Picture
- Fading Out Color
- Coloring a Single Object
- Deleting the Background
- Making a Photo Look Like an Oil Painting
- Posterizing a Picture
- Making a Photo Look Like a Sketch
- Applying the Pointillize Filter
- Trimming a Photo into a Custom Shape
- Applying Effects with the Smart Brush
- Touching Up with the Detail Smart Brush
This chapter is from the book
Creating a Gradient Fill
A gradient fill is a blended transition—usually between two colors—within a selected area. In this example, the gradient is applied to the entire background, but it could also be used to fill any object you select, even hollow text.
With the Editor in Full Edit mode and an image open, choose the Quick Selection tool, or press A.
Click to select the area in the image to which the effect will be applied.
Choose the Gradient tool, or press G.
Click and drag across the area to be filled in the direction you want the color gradation to take. (Press Ctrl+D to release the selection.)