 Lin Schlabach |
Basic Background Question I have seen cool portraits of people with the background a smooth gradient of color, like light blue at the top deepening into deep blue at the bottom. How do they do that! Thanks for answering my question!!!
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Most likely a deep blue background that's lit to gradually over expose slightly to a lighter blue.
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Diane Dupuis |
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Lin Schlabach |
Thanks Gregory... Diane,I do have Adobe Photoshop 2.That would be very helpful if you would describe the steps.
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Diane Dupuis |
Hi Lin, In my PSE 2.0 manual it is described on page 103 - Creating Fill Layer... I hope you can understand my steps, but if you can't then I hope you have the manual that came with the program! Got to Layer, New Fill Layer, Gradient... You'll have to give the layer a name, and if you click the arrow next to normal there are a bunch of pre-defined gradients... To do the one above though, I left it at normal, and pressed OK which brought me to the next menu. You'll need at some point to choose the color that you want by changing your foreground color... I did my sample as linear, and angle at 90, scale 100%... You have to choose the style (which is the shape of the gradient), angle specifies the angle at which the gradient is applied, Scale changes the size, Reverse flips the orientation, Dither reduces the banding by applying dithering to the gradient (not quite sure what that means :-) and align with layer uses the bounding box of the layer to calculate the gradient fill.... (copied all that straight from the manual ...) Anyhow, once you play around with it I hope you are able to achieve the effect you were looking for. If you need more info and don't have the manual, e-mail me your e-mail address and I'll send you the scanned pages... Good luck! Hope this helps!
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Just click and drag with the gradient tool seems easier.
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