Hey all. Every now and then you take a beautiful picture of a clear scenic day and nothing could make it better than adding a wonderful rainbow into the shot. Or in your designing etc, you may just want to add a rainbow to the composition. Below, is a tutorial, showing you how to add a rainbow in a simple manner to your work.
Firstly, open up your photo and create a new layer above your photo. Name this layer “Rainbow”.
Now, select the gradient tool and then select the following options:
Click the drop down arrow on the gradient preview, then click n the right button for more options and scroll down to ‘Special Effects’. A pop-up box will appear asking if you want to append the special effects, click ‘OK’ to replace.
Your gradient options should now look like the following. Hover your mouse over the 4th box called ‘Russell’s Rainbow’.
Select Russell’s rainbow and set your gradient tool to ‘radial.
Now with your ‘Gradient’ layer highlighted. Click in the center of your canvas and drag your mouse up to create a radial rainbow gradient. You should have something as follows.
To then make it as realistic as possible: I then moved the gradient layer across my canvas, dropped its layer opacity all the way down to 10% and erased the excess of the circle gradient to make it appear the rainbow is behind the trees.
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