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Photoshop Gradient Map Tutorial for Beginners

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Tutorials Basics 30489 February 25th, 2018

One of the most useful Photoshop adjustment layer is the Gradient Map that you can use to enhance your photos. You can use a gradient map as a non invasive method in which you can change the color map of your image, adding multiple color effects. Using Photoshop gradients(GRD files) you can create virtually unlimited number of color effects.

I will start this tutorial by saying that I am not a Photoshop master so I get a little confused sometimes; for example in this tutorial I will explain fpr all the Photoshop beginners a quick way to enhance a photo bu using a Gradient Map. As you will see if you open the fill or adjustment layer tab we have to gradient options: the Gradient (Fill) and the Gradient Map; so the question is which one to choose and use? And of course what is the difference between the two of them. For the first question I will choose the first option, the Gradient (Fill) insted of the Gradient Map. For the second question I have no answer.

Gradient Map and Gradient Fill Adjustment Layers

A Gradient Map is in fact an adjustment layer that can be applied to a layer/multiple layers and to enhance the image result. Learn more about adjustment layers from this tutorial. Adjustment layers are super useful in so many ways including preventing Photoshop lagging - preventing having your Photoshop slow and unresponsive.

Photoshop Gradient Map

So let's start with a beautiful premade background. Add a Gradient adjustment like shown in the image.

Photoshop Gradient Map

Click on the gradient to open the Gradient Editor; there you can change the existing gradient, create one yourself or you can load and use one of the many Photoshop gradients available for free on the internet.

Photoshop Gradient Map

Now set the Blend Mode of the gradient map to Overlay and the opacity 45%

Photoshop Gradient Map

You can play with different gradients and you can obtain beautiful results in just a few minutes using Photoshop gradient map adjuystments. In the same way you can use the Gradient Map instead of the Gradient (Fill) and see which of the results suits you best.

Photoshop Gradient Map
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