Adobe Photoshop

**silverglade** · 04-29-2009, 03:03 PM

hi, im having trouble making a white to transparent gradient overlay, i always get a grey about halway in. and also, when i do a marquee selection over my gradient shape and try to use the burn/dodge tool inside of it, it doesnt do anything, any help greatly appreciated. thanks. derek

**LadynRed** · 04-29-2009, 09:39 PM

You can't burn or dodge white, since white is a complete lack of color. It also won't work when the gradient is a layer style.

Is your base layer transparent ? Can you see the 'checkerboard' ?

**Brian07002** · 04-30-2009, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by silverglade

hi, im having trouble making a white to transparent gradient overlay, i always get a grey about halway in. and also, when i do a marquee selection over my gradient shape and try to use the burn/dodge tool inside of it, it doesnt do anything, any help greatly appreciated. thanks. derek

If your using Photoshop, do this, create a new file with a transparent background, create the gradient using white as the foreground and no color for the background...It will look good...TRUST ME.

Oh, for the dodge and burn tool, you need to put the gradient on one layer, and create a separate layer for the Dodge / Burn Effect.

**silverglade** · 04-30-2009, 06:06 AM

awesome thanks very much! i have a nice rounded shine now! thanks. derek