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Adding a background gradient - Painter Tutorial
From the course: Painter 2019 Essential Training
Adding a background gradient
- [Instructor] In the previous movie, we took advantage of layers to underpaint the black stamp art imagery in order to add color to the monarchs. We will once again use this technique to add a background. Let's get started. So I've already pre-created a background and I want to have that underneath all of the art that we've done and it will be on this background we can now apply our gradient. And to do that, I'm going to switch over to the main two additional colors, so it's going to use whatever is in here. And I'm just going to add a couple starter colors here, and we may do a little editing to it. So we've created those colors and we're also going to do a circular gradient in this case. And right now you can see it's backwards, so as we've done before, if you just flip this, it'll give you the right orientation. Let's go ahead and select our interactive Gradient tool. And I'm going to just position this so it's kind of radiating out from the center of our hero monarch. And I might…
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Extracting source art from a photo4m 51s
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Distressing the art3m 10s
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Overview of the Stamp brush3m 16s
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Creating the Stamp brush5m 59s
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Applying the Stamp brush8m 4s
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Underpainting the Stamp art3m 30s
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Adding a background gradient2m 49s
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Embellishing the artwork5m 9s
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Adding text to the Monarch poster3m 2s
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