Creating New Gradients In PSP Tutorial

There are no downloads necessary for this tutorial, so let's get started. 

OK, set your background style to none and your foreground style to gradient (see screenshot 1).

(screenshot 1)

Click on the foreground color fill style (which you should now have set to gradient), and PSP will automatically generate your gradient cache, and then display a small dialog box where you will select the style of fill - Linear - by clicking on the image in the top right corner of this dialog box, and then clicking on the Edit button below the default gradient window (see sreenshot 2).

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OK, now I'm going to show you how to create a new gradient.  Click on the New button next to the window listing the different types of gradients (see screenshot 3) and a small popup window will open where you can name the new copy of the gradient.  Let's rename it Raspberry Metallic.

(screenshot 3)

You will notice that your new Raspberry Gradient has only one color in the gradient view window (mine happens to be grey), but yours might be black or another color.  At this point I want you to click anywhere just below the gradient window to add a third color indicator, and slide the indicator to line up with the center of the gradient window when the percentage number appears to be 50 (see screenshot 4).

(screenshot 4)

You should now have 3 color indicators.  I would like you to make sure that the left indicator is at 0% and the right indicator is at 100% by clicking on each and sliding them into position.  Now I would like you to click on the small diamond shaped objects above the gradient window and slide them until each indicates they are 50% between the 2 adjacent color indicators (see screenshot 5).

(screenshot 5)

OK, we're almost done.  Now we're going to change each of those colors by clicking on the first color indicator, and then clicking in the small rectangle displaying that color to the left of that 1st indicator (see screenshot 5 above for location).  When you click in this rectangle area, PSP's color palette will open and I want you to change the hex value of the current color to #000000 (black) (see screenshot 6 below).  Do the exact same thing to the 3rd indicator all the way to the right and change it to black as well.  Then click on the 2nd indicator in the middle, and using the same method, change the hex value of that color to #934B57 (raspberry red).

(screenshot 6)

Voilà!  Your brand new gradient should now look something like the one in screenshot 7.

(screenshot 7)

Click OK to accept your new gradient, and then click OK again to complete the process.  At this point, your new gradient is ready for you to use (see screenshot 8 below).

(screenshot 8)

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