144 CHAPTER 4 DRAWING The typical gradient (Photography web hosting)
144 CHAPTER 4 DRAWING The typical gradient makes a smooth transition from the foreground color to the back ground color. (There are also other gradients that display different effects, such as Golden for making metallic golden glows, or Neon Cyan for making neon lights.) With the Gradient tool selected in the Toolbox, mouse down in one place, drag to another place, and release the mouse button to draw a gradient into the current layer (of course, if there s a selection, the tool will only draw inside it). Tip If you drag even slightly off horizontally or vertically, you ll get a gradient that s noticeably diagonal. If that isn t what you want, try holding down the Control key as you drag. This will constrain your dragged line to a multiple of 15 degrees, which will make it much easier to drag a perfectly horizontal or vertical line. This Control-key constraint works in most drawing tools, and also in the transform tools such as Rotation. The Gradients Chooser You may have already noticed that there s a gradient indicator in the Toolbox, below the current brush and pattern. That s because the default gradient, a smooth blend from foreground to background color, isn t the only gradient available (Figure 4-23). Figure 4-23. The gradients chooser Most of the gradients available in the dialog have fixed colors regardless of the current foreground and background. Some gradients also include transparency, or partial transparency. You may find that some of them give a nice effect, or you may find most of them extraneous.
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