Gradient&Grayscaling

Brittany Hauser

GRADIENTS:: The gradient tool is found on the tool bar by clicking and holding on the paint bucket tool and then clicking the gradient tool. To use the gradient tool to click and drag the + from the start point to the end point and release. Then the gradient you choose will show up. To change the colors on the gradient you click on the arrow next to the gradient preview to bring up the menu with the different preset gradients. There are more gradient presets by clicking on the arrow on the little menu that pops up and the different sets of gradients are under the fifth line. To make your own custom gradient you click on the gradient preview and this window pops up, Gradient Editor, which allows you to drag the colors around to make them smaller or larger. To get your own colors in there you double-click on the colored arrow and it brings up the color picker where you can choose your own colors for a personalized gradient. GRAYSCALING:: To gray scale an existing picture you go to image>mode>grayscale. This turns your picture into black and white. You cannot bring the original colors back after doing this! Unless you just undo while you still have it open. You can edit the colors by going to mode>RGB color. Then by going to image>adjustments>hue/saturation you can change the hues and saturation to different levels, making new colors. RBG- red, blue, green CMYK- cyan, magenta, yellow, black