Step Four: In the Options Bar,
choose Shape from the menu
at left (circled). Next, click the
down-pointing triangle next to
Shape at the right side of the
Options Bar (also circled). Scroll
down and expand the Leaf
Tree group, and then click a
tree (the Elm was used here).
A blue outline appears around
the shape you clicked. Make
sure the link icon between the
Width and Height fields (also
circled) is selected.
Step Five: Now, click-and-drag
diagonally to draw the shape.
Release your mouse button and
Photoshop creates a shape layer.
You can hide the blue points
that appear around the tree by
c licking the Background layer in
your Layers panel.
Step Six: Click-and-drag one
of the presets from the Gradi-
ents panel directly onto the tree
in your document. Photoshop
fills the shape with the gradient.
Keep dragging presets onto the
tree until you find one you like
(Green_31 was used here).
You can also drag a gradi-
ent preset onto a thumbnail
in the Layers panel. If you’ve
added a layer mask to that
layer, the gradient is only vis-
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