Saving Custom gradients in PS and Elements

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Part 2: Working with the Gradient Editor

The gradient editor in both Elements and Photoshop is the same.

Choose a Gradient Type: Noise or Solid. (Noise gradients contain randomly distributed colors within a range of colors that you specify. If you want more info on noise gradients, go to the Online Help and enter Noise Gradient in the search box.)

Choose a smoothness setting: the smoother you want the colors to blend, the higher the setting should be, up to 100%.

Working with the gradient ramp

The ramp lets you choose the colors and how they blend together. The markers are called Stops and moving them edits the gradient colors or opacity. You can have many colors, and you can have many different opacities, but for this exercise we'll use three colors and two opacities.

On top of the ramp are the opacity stops that edit the transparency of a gradient. On the bottom of the ramp are color stops that let you edit the colors included in the gradient.

Let's look at color stops in part 3.

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