From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Photoshop Cert Prep
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Create, customize, and organize gradients - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Photoshop Cert Prep
Create, customize, and organize gradients
Now for this particular topic you might be asked about gradients and how to work with gradients in Photoshop. For this you will need to know a couple of things. First of all you need to know where you can find the gradient tool and the shortcut for it is G and whenever this tool is selected in the newer versions of Photoshop it will automatically create a gradient fill layer. So you can see that showing up here in the document. This is essentially a non-destructive way of using this tool so instead of drawing directly on an existing layer it creates it as an individual layer that can also be edited later on with the gradient annotator. So we can move the start and end points easily around, we can also move the midpoint and adjust the transition between these two colors and of course we can change the color stops as well so if we double click on either of these we can adjust the color and it's great that the colors are changing live in the background so whenever I move my cursor around…
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Set appropriate document settings for printed and onscreen images11m 9s
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Create a new document preset to reuse for specific project needs1m 25s
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Identify and manipulate elements of the interface and then organize and customize the workspace14m 42s
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Configure application preferences4m 6s
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Navigate a document6m 12s
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Use guides and grids8m 4s
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Open or import images from various devices9m 14s
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Place assets in a Photoshop document5m 39s
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Use the Adobe Camera Raw interface to import images3m 10s
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Set the active foreground and background color6m 56s
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Create, customize, and organize gradients4m 22s
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Create, edit, and organize swatches2m 12s
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Open, browse, and search libraries of included brushes, styles, and patterns6m 23s
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Create, use, edit, and organize brushes, styles, and patterns8m 13s
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