Gradients for Photoshop: where to download and how to install

Professional photo editor "Photoshop" has firmly entered the life of most users of the personal computer as professionals (various photos and web studios) and an ordinary user as a desktop program that should always be on the computer. After all, the field of its application is truly limitless! It is professional retouching of photos in photo salons, restoration of old and damaged photos, creation of banners, postcards, GIF-animations.

At one time, in "Photoshop" even actively created pretty good site layouts. Now, of course, professionals in the creation of sites, more precisely, their layouts, use already other programs, specialized, but all the same company Adobe.

Photoshop Lesson: Gradient Tool

For a beginner who wants to try himself as a photoshop master, he will have to work hard, studying a huge library of functions. The blessing for this on the Internet is a huge number of different lessons, both video and text, with illustrations and step-by-step instructions. This article is not an exception, and it can be ranked as the next lesson in Photoshop. And the speech in it will go about such an instrument as the gradients for "Photoshop".

Wide possibilities of gradients

The gradient in "Photoshop" is a tool by which we can set the direction of the increasing or decreasing color value with a smooth transition or from the transparent one to the color and vice versa. In fact, there are a lot of gradient options, as well as the settings of this tool.

Initially, the program "Photoshop" in Russian during installation already has a certain number of gradient sets, they are grouped by folders, they can be changed at their discretion, as well as download gradients from the Internet and create their own sets.

Creating a button using a gradient

For clarity, let's create a button for the site, we 'll make the effect of the 3D button using the gradient:

• Create a new document ("File" / "Create") and set arbitrary height and width values.

• Then we'll fill our working document, with some background at your discretion. Create an empty layer. This is necessary so that we can move our button on the canvas and place it anywhere in the workspace.
• We take the tool "Rectangular area" and with the clipped mouse button we are diagonally on the working document to draw a rectangle, you can draw a circle, a square, any figure you will work with, here, in the toolbox, there is, besides "Rectangular area ", And other tools.

Using a gradient to create different effects

The drawn rectangle on your canvas will look just like a selected rectangular area. To use the tools in Photoshop - a gradient, for example - you do not need to shoot, otherwise it will be applied to the whole canvas, not just to our button.

Now activate the gradient tool and look in the upper left corner - there is a settings panel, separately for each item.

In Photoshop CS6, the most extreme button on the left is history, you can go to a certain step, we do not need it here. And the next button in the form of a scale. Having opened it, we see gradients for "Photoshop", pre-installed by default.

There are a little more than a dozen standard gradients, but if you click on the gear, in this dialog box, the extended settings menu opens.

Click on the item "Manage sets", and in the opened menu you can change the preset gradients for "Photoshop" by other sets that are available, or download your downloaded ones that you downloaded from the Web.

You can also restore the default gradients by clicking on the "Restore Gradients" menu item.

Next you can see the gradient switching buttons: linear, radial, cone, mirror. And next - the buttons of the mode of imposing and opacity. You can customize them at your own discretion, guided by your own taste.

Silent game with the gradient settings, picking up colors and working with style tools, you can create a large interesting button.

How to download and install Gradients in Photoshop

In addition to standard sets, the mentioned tool can be found on the Internet. For example, on the training portal "Photoshop Master" there is a section "Gradients for" Photoshop "- a large collection available for download.

After you have decided on the choice and downloaded the archive, you need to unpack it, and then go to the settings of the Gradient tool and click on Load Gradients. Then select the appropriate file on the computer and click "Download", and then new ones will be added to the current gradient map.