Sitting quietly in the Tools panel of the popular image editors Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Pixelmator, is the Gradient tool, a wonderfully useful painting tool that lets you create a soft, gradual transition from one color to another (or several). But besides using the tool to add color to your designs, you can use it inside a layer mask (referred to as a gradient mask). By setting the two colors of the gradient to black and white—to conceal and reveal, respectively—the tool lets you fade layer content in interesting ways. In this column, you’ll discover six handy uses for this creative technique. Fading images together The gradient mask is circled here. A color tint was added to the top example to introduce color consistency between the two images. A gradient mask lets you quickly fade images together into a collage.
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With at least two images on separate layers within the same document, position the image you want on the top of your collage at the top of the layer stack. Add a layer mask to it by clicking the circle-within-a-square icon at the bottom of your Layers panel in Photoshop; it’s at the top of the Layers panel in Photoshop Elements’ Expert Mode (in Pixelmator, choose Layer > Add Layer Mask). Next, press G to grab the Gradient tool—this keyboard shortcut works in all three apps—and then choose a black-to-white, linear gradient. To do this in Photoshop, trot up to the Options bar and click the down-pointing triangle next to the gradient preview. From the resulting menu, click the black-to-white gradient (third from left in the top row), and then click the linear gradient button to the menu’s right. In Elements’ Tool Options panel, you’ll find similar controls. In Pixelmator, once you activate the Gradient tool, click the gradient preview at upper left of your document and in the resulting menu, click the black to white linear gradient icon.
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