Verigating or shading areas

[pilotwritergeorge]

I often need an area of one color, where the color varies in darkness from one end to another. A solid area is obviously easy, but how can I select an area, then flood it with a color where I can select one shade of the color at one end, then as darker shade at the other end, and get a smooth gradient across the area?

I hope I am describing this so you can understand me.

Thank you

[BoltBait]

Use a selection tool:    to select the area you want to color.  Choose your beginning and ending color as your primary and secondary color. Use the gradient tool  to draw your gradient.

 

If that's not what you want, just show us a picture of your desired effect and we'll walk you through recreating it.