Today’s ffffound: Channels

This one is pretty straightforward, but more than 3/4 of my time was spent wrestling with Photoshop’s gradient system. Every gradient I made looked more like a donut and less like a gradual progression of color.

1. Pay attention to both colors at the ends of your gradients, the color affects the gradient even if it’s set too 0% opacity.
2. Use clipping masks when working with vector shapes and gradients or other non-solid color fills. Using pixel based selections and fills will bite you in the ass when you need to resize the whole document.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

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