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In the Layers palette, click the New Layer button. I didn’t name my layer, so you’ll see it shown as Layer 1 (the default name) in the illustrations.
     With the new layer selected, do the same thing with the angle gradient tool that you did with the first layer. 		next
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The Overlay blend mode, with a 100 % opacity setting gave the image below.
     I’ll show you this image, with a filter applied, and then I’ll so something a little more complicated. This first, simple one should show you the technique.
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