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Using a gradient fill layer to add a color wash

Using a gradient fill layer to add a color wash - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using a gradient fill layer to add a color wash

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- [Instructor] A quick and easy way to add a color wash over a black and white image, is to add a new gradient fill air. From the layers panel, I'll choose new fill layer and then gradient, and I'll want to change the blending mode to color. Otherwise we'll just see a solid color gradient and I want to see the luminosity values from the photograph below. I'll click okay and then we have a number of different gradients that we can choose from, if you click on the downward pointing triangle. We can select from any of these gradients, or we can create our own. I'll just start with a gradient that has two colors in it. And then I'll click in the gradient to bring up the gradient editor. I want my gradient to go from blue to yellow. So I'll double-click on the color stop to bring up the color picker and I'm just going to de-saturate that first blue and then I'll double click on the color stop on the right. And I'll choose…

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