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Adding a background gradient

Adding a background gradient - Painter Tutorial

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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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