How to make Gradient text in Pixlr Video Lecture | Pixlr Tutorial: Master Image Editing - Professional Skills

welcome to another pixel of tutorial and
this tutorial is going to show you how
to create gradient text so creating text
in whatever font or size it prefer and
then applying a gradient to it and
here's an example of what one looks like
so let's create a new image and I'll
leave it at 800 by 600 just an example
and apply a gradient to that background
so I'm just going to pick a black and
white one so the text stands out
that will do now I don't he laughs and
create your text so whatever font you
want to use and size and style I'm using
impact type some text and I'll just make
it white for the moment so you can see
it it won't matter what color it is
because you're going to replace that
white with the gradients
and then you can move it around
depending on what you want to do with
this I could cut this out and paste it
in some other image the next thing is to
rasterize the layer and what that means
is you want to turn this layer that has
the text on it into a regular graphics
layer and once you rasterize it you no
longer can edit that text so in the
layer menu rasterize the layer and still
a has been rasterized in the edit menu
select pixels and then select the
gradient tool and pick whatever color
you want to apply to that text so if you
want a lot of colors I can select this
one multiple colors and then draw a
gradient or a line across a text and
that turns it into radiant text ctrl D
to deselect if you want to pick a
different color then select the pixels
again and pick a different gradient or
select the preset that put your own
colors into it so here's one with just
two colors draw a line and change that
to orange and orange and blue doesn't
look that good that one
let's go with multiple colors of it
oh that one
I look too bad and then control D you
can play around with the gradients and
the direction of the line so I've drawn
it straight across and it's not much
else you can do with that and then what
would look good is to create some styles
with their layer style so I'm on that
same layout select layer style and maybe
an inner glow
or an outer glow any decline
and what
you
and then percent opacity make it a bit
harder it just outlines it I mean that
might look better in black but you can
put some sort of style in there to make
that stand out
so that's how you apply a gradient to
text let's open augh