Photoshopt tutorial- Carlie M

Rainbow Effect
1. First look for a landscape photo on Google images, or take a good one.
2. Lock the original photo
3. Click new layer
4. Change name “layer” to “rainbow” and press return
5. Select the gradient tool from the tool panel
6. Click gradient picker
7. It opens the gradient editor, and add the rainbow gradient. Click right-pointing arrow
8. Click special effect and when a pop-up comes up click append
9. Click “Russel’s Rainbow”
10. Click options bar then gradient tool
11. Hold shift while dragging from right of photo to left
12. When released a rainbow is drawn
13. Go to blend mode options in left of the layers, set to normal
14. Go to filter, choose blur and then Gaussian blur
15. Drag radius to the right to increase blur, drag until colors look blended and softer. 50 pixels work, click ok
16. Mask the layer, it’s a button on the bottom of layers that’s gray with a white center
17. Control-click in gradient tool, select black to white gradient. Press return
18. Choose linear gradient
19. Hold shift while dragging on mask layer, when released you don’t see actual gradient on the image
20. Duplicate to make, command + j, opacity to 70%
21. Group, shift and click original rainbow at once
22. Go to layer and click group layers
23. Add a blank layer and repeat previous steps
24. Save it