How do you draw multiple gradients!?

#1

I’ve seen a tutorial where a guy was highlighting various parts of an image by drawing gradients everywhere? How the hell do you do this in ps? Whenever I’ve created gradients every subsequent stroke deletes the old one and draws the new one…?? Yet this guy was happily drawing gradients multiple times and they were all staying where he’d put them!?

Could someone tell me how he was doing this? Is it some check box I’m missing? Or key I’m not hold down? I’ve tried all the usual suspects, ctrl, alt etc but to no avail.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

#2

Set at least one of the colors in your gradient to clear/transparent.

#3

Aha, great thanks!

#4

Another approach is with the composite [word?] modes. Up top on the control panel you can change from Normal to maybe Multiply or Overlay. Experiment. If you are doing more than a small number of grads, it will probably make too much muck. Maybe it combines nicely with the xparent option.

#5

This could be done on different layers…then merge layers with layer masks.

#6

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