{"id":53200,"date":"2024-05-28T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=53200"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:55:11","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2024\/05\/tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-231\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick Trick: Gradient Titles<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PDF Version : https:\/\/bit.ly\/45ljkOv<\/a><\/p>\n

Are you up for another way to use Gradients<\/strong> in your scrapbooking? Let’s apply one to some text to create a title. (I’m showing it on a photo, but it’ll be great as a layout title too. You could even create your own Gradient<\/strong> papers and alphas with this Trick<\/strong>!!) It’s a really quick way to elevate our layouts. Let’s use this photo.<\/p>\n

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Did you recognize the Joshua tree? Trajan Pro 3<\/strong> is an Adobe<\/strong> font; I used it for its clean lines. It may be a system font on your computer. But any font you like will be perfect.<\/p>\n

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I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned what happens when you Simplify<\/strong> a text layer. It basically converts the font to pixels, which then allows us to modify it however we want to – but it’s no longer editable. Here’s a tip: If you think there’s any risk of needing to edit that text, make a Copy<\/strong> of it and make it invisible<\/span>, like I’ve done here.<\/p>\n

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This next step is absolutely essential<\/span><\/strong>. Click<\/strong> on the Lock Transparent Pixels<\/strong> button, show in the box, so that the Gradient<\/strong> is applied ONLY<\/strong> to the text.<\/p>\n

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I want to use colours from my photo for the Gradient<\/strong>, so using the Color Picker<\/strong> (Eyedropper<\/strong>), I first selected a spot in the sky for a bright blue. Then I held down the ALT\/OPT<\/strong> key and clicked the Eyedropper<\/strong> on the darker shadow area of the photo just above the “U”. That way, I didn’t have to switch the target swatches, Elements<\/strong> did it for me.<\/p>\n

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This technique’s path is much shorter than the one in our last Gradient<\/strong> tutorial. Click<\/strong> on the Gradient Tool<\/strong> (looks like a… dark-to-light gradient across a sheet of paper) in the Control Panel<\/strong>. To keep this really basic, we’ll use the default settings for the Tool<\/strong>. But there’s a LOT that can be done down there in the Tool Options<\/strong> panel to create a truly unique effect.<\/p>\n

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To duplicate the photo’s palette, with blue above and tan below, I clicked<\/strong> my cursor above the text and dragged<\/strong> a straight, vertical line to below the text. The Gradient<\/strong> will go in the direction you drag your cursor; I tried upper-left-to-lower-right too, just to see what it looked like. You do you! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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To bring the text up out of the sand, I added a slight Drop Shadow<\/strong> and a bit of a Bevel<\/strong>. That’s all there is to it!<\/p>\n

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For this sample, I went to the invisible, unSimplified<\/strong> text layer and put it all one a single line. Then I followed the preceding steps again to get this effect.<\/p>\n

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With the identical Shadow<\/strong> and Bevel<\/strong>, this look is much more subtle. Hmm. Which way do I like it better?<\/p>\n

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Here’s one last look at options. This time I pulled the Gradient<\/strong> up from below, creating a mirror version. I can’t decide!!!!<\/p>\n

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See you all in June!<\/p>\n

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Quick Trick: Gradient Titles PDF Version : https:\/\/bit.ly\/45ljkOv Are you up for another way to use Gradients in your scrapbooking? Let’s apply one to some text to create a title. (I’m showing it on a photo, but it’ll be great as a layout title too. You could even create your own Gradient papers and alphas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[229,102,284,92,62],"tags":[373],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 21:49:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53337,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53200\/revisions\/53337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}