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kyphur
04-14-2004, 09:42 PM
When I first went to college I had a teacher that showed me how to setup gradient swatches by selecting two colors and then telling photoshop to fill in the steps between. Thus if I wanted a gradient of swatches going from brown to green I would just pick brown as my first, green as my second and then specify how many swatches I wanted between. Since that was over 4 years ago I have long forgotten this useful tip. Does anyone know how to do it now?

Kyph
berniebernie
05-05-2004, 03:12 PM
open your gradient window

set up your two-color gradient

choose the left color cursor, then hit the arrow next to the color box and choose 'Foreground' - repeat for the right color cursor, using 'Background' - now you can pick your colors and ps will do the rest =)
kyphur
05-05-2004, 05:07 PM
I don't think this came across right. I'm not trying to setup a gradient for the gradient tool. I'm trying to add gradients to the swatch pallette by chosing two colors in the swatch pallete window and then telling it to create the steps inbetween. Be it four step swatch levels of color or thirty. It was a really neat trick to be able to make a color pallette for painting.

Kyph
the_podman
10-29-2004, 06:08 PM
this is an old post, but one that I wish I had the answer to as well. I'm in need of the same thing, and whats funny is, a teacher also DID show me how to do this once so I know it's possible. If you ever find the answer, please shoot it my way as well. Thanks,

-pod
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