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Using gradients to add color effects - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2023 Essential Training
Using gradients to add color effects
- [Instructor] A quick and easy way to add a color wash over a black and white image is to add a new gradient fill layer. This image actually is an RGB image, it's not a grayscale image. If you're working with a grayscale image, in order to add color, you'll need to go to Image, Mode, and then convert it to RGB color. Now we can add a gradient fill layer using the Layer menu, New Fill Layer, and then Gradient. Or we can hold down the option key on Mac or the alt key on Windows, and from the bottom of the Layers panel, we can click on the new adjustment layer icon and then choose Gradient. The reason that we hold down the option or the alt key is to make sure that we can see this new layer dialogue so that I can change the mode from Normal to Color. Otherwise, Photoshop will just add a gradient on top of this flower, and it will hide the flower below it. All right, when I click OK, we'll get the gradient fill options.…
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Understanding file formats7m 40s
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Mastering bit depth and color mode9m 7s
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Choosing a color space6m 55s
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Making sense of document size7m 53s
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Using Image Size to change document dimensions5m 47s
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Discover flexible editing using the History panel4m 4s
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Saving and exporting documents7m 50s
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A tour of the Camera Raw interface6m 27s
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Removing distortions and cropping photos6m 34s
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Working with profiles and presets7m 21s
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Enhancing contrast, color, and tone9m 20s
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Removing distracting elements9m 20s
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Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image15m 53s
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Using masking to retouch portraits5m 42s
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Black-and-white vintage color toning effects7m 34s
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Saving and opening files in Photoshop5m 46s
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Introducing adjustment layers3m 32s
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Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves9m 59s
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Changing colors using Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, and Color Balance5m 30s
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Converting to black and white and color toning with Gradient Maps4m 52s
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Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers4m 15s
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Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform5m 41s
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Correcting the perspective of an image4m 41s
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Warping images6m 23s
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Using Liquify to reshape an image6m 55s
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Using Vanishing point to paste in perspective5m 27s
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Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers as one4m 2s
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Filter essentials1m 54s
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Applying filters nondestructively with Smart Filters5m 1s
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Sharpening images8m 53s
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Creative blurring effects11m 6s
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AI-assisted (neural) filters6m 30s
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Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery4m 50s
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Applying Camera Raw as a filter4m 4s
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