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Create, customize, and organize gradients

Create, customize, and organize gradients - Photoshop Tutorial

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Create, customize, and organize gradients

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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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