Adding Fun and Useful Effects - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 725

Figure 13-22. The powerful and complex Gradient Editor. Here, the aqua stop (where the cursor
is) was clicked to make it active. (The dark triangle above the stop is Elements' way of telling you
it's the active stop.) The two tiny diamonds on either side of the active stop mark the midpoints of
the transitions between the selected color and its neighbors. You can move these diamonds to
change the midpoints.
You do most of your work in the Gradient Editor's Gradient bar , the long colored bar where
Elements displays the current gradient (in Figure 13-22 , this bar is rainbow colored). The
little boxes (called stops ) and diamonds surrounding the Gradient bar let you control the
gradient's color and transparency.
NOTE
The directions in this section are for editing solid gradients. Noise gradients work a little
differently, as explained on Creating Noise Gradients .
For now, you care about only the stops below the Gradient bar (the ones above it are ex-
plained in the next section). Each one is a color stop ; it represents where a particular color
falls in the gradient. (You need at least two color stops in a gradient.) If you click a stop, its