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My gradient tool wont work on a black background?

Jul 22, 2012 4:53 PM

Hello everyone, I'm currently using photoshop CS6 and am trying to make a nice logo for my website. I used photoshop through high school so I know little basic things about the program. Anyways, I'm creating a logo from a tut on youtube, it says to hit "ctrl i" which makes the background black. After that I select a darkish grey as my foreground color, then I hit the gradient tool and set it to "radial gradient." Now I drag the mouse across the document and let go but nothing happens. I then tried it with a white background and it worked fine, but I want the background to be black. I made sure that it was on normal, the opacity is 100% and everything seems correct to what the tutorial was showing me. He uses a different photoshop than me so I don't know if that's what causes it.

 
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    Jul 22, 2012 5:05 PM   in reply to Blake0wnsU

    Check the blend mode on the gradient tool options bar.

    Sounds like you set it to something other than normal and forgot...

     
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    Jul 22, 2012 5:14 PM   in reply to Blake0wnsU

    Then check the rest of the options for the gradient tool, and the layers palette -- somewhere you have set something that makes it not show, or draw to the wrong layer, etc.

     
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    Jul 22, 2012 5:46 PM   in reply to Blake0wnsU

    That isn't likely to have anything to do with it - because the bugs in your display driver have already caused Photoshop to disable all the GPU functions.

    But you really should update your video card driver from the GPU maker's website to fix those bugs in the driver.

     

     

    Odds are that you're still missing a setting.  Try resetting the tool (to clear all the settings).

     
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    Jul 22, 2012 5:58 PM   in reply to Blake0wnsU

    Ensure that you're using the "Foreground to Transparent" gradient and Transparency is ticked in the options bar for the Gradient Tool.

     

    Screen shot 2012-07-23 at 01.49.13.png

     

    And if you're drawing the gradient on a layer other than Background, ensure the layer's blending mode is "Normal" and its opacity is 100%.

     
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