Tool focus… Make art with the Gradient tool

Use a simple fill tool to add toned colour to your pictures

ADDING THE CAMELS Open ‘camels.jpg’, go to Filter>Adjustments>Threshold and set to Multiply; this gives you the perfect silhouette to complete your desert scene. Colour can add excitement to your photos – it’s one of the most important aspects of any picture and crucial to get perfect. Gradients can add more than just colour to your pictures though; they also add tone, shade and light. They’re fantastic tools for illustrators as well as photomanipulators and photo editors, but the best thing is that all you have to do is drag them to apply. Gradients might feel like one of the most simple tools in Elements, but it takes practice to know when to use them, whether you’re trying to make an entire landscape of gradient-filled shapes – such as our evening Sahara scene above –…

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