5 Beautiful Effects with Gradients | Sun Flare, Light Rays & Background Coloring

Today we show you how to create 5 effects using gradients in Photoshop! Learn how to add light rays to an image, brighten a subject, create interesting backgrounds, add color to a sky, and create beautiful sunset effects. Best of all, we include 5 custom sun flare gradients that you can download and use on your own photos!
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[@mohammadashkanani4943]

That last use of gradient is a brilliant idea . The lights look amazing

[@supermarkomarkomarko]

This tutorial is sooooooo good, I'm speechless. Bookmarked it. I use pastel gradient map and then blend it to soft light with reduced opacity. It gives nice pinkish tone to the image

[@nathangriffiths8809]

So loved your spaniel. We've had 5 of them at various times and looking at yours has made me broody all over again.

[@bullfighter6951]

I didn't expect anything new and then the gradient noise into light rays, fantastic.

[@Ruffian_Xion]

Loving that light ray technique.

[@dusanstevic89]

This is by far the best Light Rays how-to on YT. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the community!

[@WhiteHopperPhotographyCompany]

very helpful and simple

[@photonsonpixels]

Simply fantastic! Thanks, Aaron.

[@oldsloppy69]

Blew my mind with the light rays from the gradient

[@dibh8173]

Woah this is super amazing!
Thank u so much.
Just completed 30 days photoshop tutorial, now going to jump into manipulation and all this happen just cause of u ✨✨✨🤗

[@vkseb9443]

What?!? Mind blown, This will save so much time in both my Macro and Landscape Photography. Gonning to have fun making gradients. Thank You

[@milanstamenkovic8896]

Aaron, awesome tutorial. Thanks so much, gradients are my new fav!

[@grvinator]

Amazing video as always. Ive been meaning to search the web for some light rays tutorials. Thanks Aaron

[@susanwilson6409]

I just didn't know that there was so many ways to use gradients. Thank you

[@Hisoka54]

This was exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!

[@Ronin760]

Best tutorial on how to use gradients. Thanks!

[@sandialdridge7599]

Thank you dude! I love the tutorial!!

[@totylow]

Great vid!!! i´ve learnt so much watching you Aaron. Thx so much for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@casperhinsch6906]

As always a great tutorial. I love the way you teach, wonderful mood and "foolish" comments 👍 Greetings fra Denmark 🇩🇰

[@vasilikizarri5701]

thank you!! FANTASTIC JOB!!

[@josemanuelromero]

just amazing, many..many..many thanks for your tutorial.

[@iHadarPaz]

Aaron's little side notes are priceless! :)

[@elazarzadiki3059]

I really like your tutorials man, good job!

[@isayildiz6749]

Phlearn, I learn a lot of things from your tutorials. Thank u so much man.

[@FahimFarooqFoto]

I wanted to watch your pro tutorial about gradients. I will watch this and then the pro tutorial :)

[@cra456bb]

'BOOM' Aarons new word! Great tutorial as always

[@sibe031]

the sun ray was amazing

[@davidj.gregory6072]

Awesome effects with gradients!

[@frankcich1423]

Very cool effects, Aaron. Thanks for sharing!

[@BillGong]

This was fricking next level. Thank you!

[@martinagiusstreetphotography]

Awesome tips and I am loving Gradients now

[@indigoharvest]

Thank you for a brilliant tutorial and resources.

[@sam1770]

Awesome as always Aaron, thank you!

[@dianewilliams4880]

Awesome tutorial! Thank you.I am off to give it a try.

[@claudethdelossantos9289]

Thanks for this tutorial, Master Phlearn.

[@noiriwinter2107]

stunning

[@buckskinboy]

Great ideas. I can already remember many pics I want to do this to improve them.

[@HansHenrikBay]

Thank you so much, amazing tutorial. You're the best.

[@isabellethomas2108]

thank you as always Aaron, cool tutorial and very practical too for any future photo edits I will do :)

[@jok3208]

It's a great tool SPECIALLY to blend images for flyers instead of curves.

[@madhusoodanshimoga5725]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks.

[@Aprendizzz2009]

Nice and great video! Thanks so much!!! It is fun to learn with you, I'd really enjoy watching your videos and learning a lot!!! 👍

[@loconene4463]

Great job you've done and awesome tuto ....thanks a lot .

[@garobi5523]

The noisy black and white gradient for optical flare is pretty coooool 🙈🙉

[@TheR9ch]

this was awesome man, thanks!

[@sunmooncr]

Awesome!!!! tutorials, Thank you so much. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Beautiful dog 🐾🐾🐾😍❤️

[@martb7535]

Your style of delivery is also very entertaining a joy to watch & learn.

[@alialhassan6927]

Thanks for tutorial, have a great day or night 🔥

[@jaimee.campuzanot.2702]

Muchas gracias Aaron!!!

[@franckrollier895]

Fantastic ! Thanks 🙏

[@matheusempixels]

You are such a great teacher!!!

[@CerebralAilment]

Thanks Phlearn! Just had a fun couple hours editing some random old cell phone photo's with you - I have a strong feeling if I keep this up one day I'll be getting paid to do this stuff =P

[@brianhorrocks5757]

Great tutorial, thanks.

[@beezinmyhead]

This video helped me so much! Thank youu

[@khamai5353]

Thanks! This is great video .

[@ArturJBCosta]

Simple Fantastic, Thumbs UP

[@josediazh3890]

Muchas gracias !!

[@mdesoukymansour1]

Great workflow !!

[@collinanderson3432]

Very cool, thanks Aaron.

[@rajiasultana257]

I like this very much

[@danjeory3659]

I use Gradients all the time. And they look fine. But let me tell you. I have not been using them anywhere NEAR as creatively as I could have been!! Thank you! 🙏

[@mohammedelaoula1030]

Thank you for this amazing video

[@BystanderPs]

Awesome. this is great and quite simple

[@jay1232000]

Liked and subscribed. Thank you for sharing.

[@carolbell4550]

Thanks..... I love your tutorials .... and have spent all day on this one..... yes its also book marked so I can keep on practicing.

[@phlearn]

Thanks for watching!

[@joseluisavilagonzalez9626]

You are a gem of knowledge, and mainly a gem of a man, Aaron!

[@phlearn]

haha, thank you so much Jose!

[@zerodesign6640]

Nice sharing.. love it. 😍

[@cms4Lena]

Poppies seeds. Thank you for your professional work.

[@nebraasss1]

Thanks for tutorial

[@trkhchv]

You’re awesome!!!!

[@alansarpy]

Aaron... When ever I "air drop" a finished image from my mac to my iPhone it always seems to transfer much more darker then what is shown on my computer monitor. Ive checked all the brightness settings on my phone as well.. any recommendations ?? thank you ... Your channel rocks!!

[@djplays261]

Great tutorial!

[@ScotTheGr8]

Bravo!!!

[@ao_qd]

I mostly use gradients to adjust light balance in a photo that will have text over it, ensuring better text-and-background contrast.

[@arefesaeedi1380]

I wish I could like more than once👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@cnicolo]

Hi Aaron thank you so much for these tips.. how to remove banding from a radial gradient ?(dither sometimes didn’t work) Gaussian blur? Thank you ☺️

[@karunnaidu5060]

Thank you so much

[@nikitinse]

I use cheap lenses and get sun glow natural way :) Thanks for sharing ideas anyway!

[@jasminevirdi8256]

Great video.

[@44claude]

Thank you

[@TrajektoryGFX]

Hello! When I want to know something about photoshop I always come to this channel because this is so awesome! I completely followed your 30 days of photoshop series when I started doing photoshop. Many thanks sir!
Btw do you find these cool techniques yourself? I can't get how do even one think about doing something like this

[@phlearn]

Hey there! Congratulations of finishing the 30 Day of Photoshop series!🙌

[@TrajektoryGFX]

@@phlearn It was so good! I will definitely buy a PHLEARN pro subscription someday!

[@Incognitothegreat]

Aaron, will you be doing any videos about Photoshop Camera for mobile devices?

[@TheFreeBass]

One of my favert gradient tricks is to use it on a blur layer to fake depth of field

[@mutlunun]

Lightrays is my favorite trick

[@algillar8089]

The last gradient is awesome. Is there a way of changing the color of the light ray,,,.i.e. the color to represent the golden hour?

[@francoisdormoy2615]

You made a great presetation which was very informative for me. However, you showed many gradient presets in your Gradient Editor Menu and I had the impression that they were coing fromAdobe and installed by you. In my Photoshop 2021 version, the list of Gradient presets is limited and does not include for expl SunFlare. Can you tell me how to incorporate these gradient presets in my Gradient EditorMenu ?

[@seketestudio6488]

insane

[@andresmclean8149]

Hey there!! Is it possible to make the noise gradient tinier, so it doesn´t take place in the entire picture?

[@sommaberlin3394]

Hi! Can i colour the rays? thanks a lot.

[@RonMcBride-ip4fr]

With the plant stems, I used the magic wand tool with tolerance decrease and, it got everything. But, when I applied gradient adj layer, my steps didn't look so hot - not smooth like yours. Any advice?

[@johnglavey808]

As someone studying B@W minmalistic lanscapes I am really annoyed i haven't been shown this. Thank you .

[@dbroselogan]

How would i add color to tge light rays for sunlight colors of sunrise or sunset

[@TheYellowFlashLight]

I love it! Thank you! By the way... those aren’t blueberries. That’s opium buds. 😂

[@Jack-es9xq]

poppy pods

[@almo9799]

nice

[@petrub27]

No beard finally looking good man

[@Gretaly]

When I turn my group of layers into smart object, the point of the angle, which I had originally in the middle, goes to the left upper corner instead of staying in the middle. No idea how to fix this. Can anyone help?

[@trick_er]

Can you do collab with Piximperfect!?
It would be awesome to see both of you together@

[@Olney66]

I don't understand why after clicking on the gradient fill box, then clicking on the color scale, I don't get the big window called Gradient Editor with the wide selection of color choices? My PH 2023 is up to date. Thanks

[@markmezzino7262]

hey Aaron..my color button is `grayed out`..any ideas ?
Cheers Mark

[@ZOly62]

► TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
00:55 Tools for Creating Gradients
05:40 Sunset Coloring with the Gradient Tool
08:20 Braightening with Layer Mask Gradients
10:47 Background Coloring with Gradient Fill
13:24 Sky Detail with Gradient Fill
15:28 Light Rays with Gradient Noise