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I took a photoshop course a few years ago and haven't used most of the features since. So I think I need step-by-step instruction on how to do this. I read the Adobe Photoshop help instructions and followed them, but nothing happened. What I am trying to do is start with a blank screen, add colour with a gradient (that part I managed to do) and leaves in autumn colours (I'm not getting the nice red colours that I was before even though I have set the foreground to red--I'm just getting plain orange colours and the leaves are now an odd shape). I would also like the coloured background to be textured as well. A brick wall would be ideal. I went into the Filter menu, chose Artistic>Underpainting with a Layer of brick and selected a light direction. I am not sure how the texture is supposed to work. Am I supposed to use a certain tool with it? I have tried things in different orders and am getting confused as to the orders that I have tried. Can someone be explicit?

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CdnRebel

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