Use the eyedropper tool to get a sample of any color in your document.

Click and the sample will now become the foreground color that you can work with.

For this educational tutorial, get an eyedropper sample to get your new foreground color in the color picker. Now drag the background layer of this photo to the new layer icon.

This will duplicate the layer so you can change some pixels on.

Switch back to the background layer by clicking on it so it’s highlighted in the layers palette. Now press the new layer icon to create a new and blank layer above the background layer.

Now you can ‘fill’ this new layer with your foreground color several ways in which I teach. For now go to Edit: Fill and choose the default foreground color and press OK. This will fill the layer with the new color you have chosen from the eyedropper tool.

Now this blank layer is filled with your foreground color.

Select the original copy you made in the layers palette which should be above the fill layer.

Now click on the new layer mask icon.

What you are going to do is simply ‘hide’ pixels by using the layer mask; they’re still there just hidden. By hiding some of the pixels on this layer you can let the layer beneath blend into this layer.

Grab your gradient tool with black as the foreground color and choose foreground to transparent as shown.

Tags: photoshop, Tutorials

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