Photoshop Tutorial: How to Quickly Add a Rainbow to Your Photo!

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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do you know that Photoshop ships with a

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ready-made rainbow in case you don't

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it's called Russell's rainbow and I'll

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show you where to access it and a quick

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effective way to add it to your outdoor

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photos this is an update to a tutorial i

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did on an earlier version of Photoshop

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open a photo you'd like to add a rainbow

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to I downloaded this one and the others

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from shutterstock.com the first step is

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to click the new layer icon to make a

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new layer in this empty layer will

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create our rainbow open your gradient

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tool open your gradient thumbnails and

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click the gear icon to open your list of

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gradient presets click special effects

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when you see this window click append to

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add the special effects preset to the

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current gradient thumbnails click the

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last icon which is Russell's rainbow

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click the radial gradient icon which

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gives us the arc of the rainbow go to

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the lower right corner of your document

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and press and hold shift as you drag

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across the line to approximately where

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you want the outside of your rainbow to

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end then release pressing shift kept the

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line perfectly horizontal as you dragged

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it across if you want the rainbow to arc

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on the opposite side just drag the

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gradient line from the lower left across

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to the right

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go to filter blur and Gaussian blur

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upload 50 pixels however depending on

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the resolution of your photo you may

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want to use a different blur amount

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to make the rainbow blend into the sky

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better we need to do a few more

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adjustments first change its blend mode

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to screen

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and reduce its opacity between 50 to 70

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percent

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since rainbows gradually disappear as

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they get closer to the ground we'll make

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our rainbow do that as well click the

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layer mask icon to make a layer mask

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next to the rainbow

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open your gradient thumbnails and click

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the black white gradient click the

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linear gradient icon go to the bottom of

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your document press and hold shift and

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drag up the gradient line to the top

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then release this is Marty from Blue

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Lightning TV thanks for watching