Hands-on Tutorial

Intermediate

3 min

Use gradients to add depth to your artwork

Enhance your design by adding colorful gradients. Change a gradient’s colors, angle, and opacity to make a social post stand out.

Start with core concepts

This video introduces the concept of blending colors, called gradients, and shows the process for creating and modifying a gradient. 

What you'll learn

Apply a gradient

Apply a blend of colors—known as a gradient—to artwork from a document's default gradient swatches.

Change the gradient color

Change the colors in the gradient to make them pop.

Adjust gradient direction and blend

Further refine the look of the gradient by adjusting its direction and color blend.

Change gradient opacity

Make colors in the gradient blend transparent so that you can see through them to the artwork beneath. 


Instructor

Brian Wood

Designer

Cameron Wray

Contributor

Anatolii Babii

Adobe Stock Contributors

ValentinValkov

mego-studio

rawpixel

2 November 2022

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