Reverse Gradient Effect...Anybody?

Tonight I was working on a design. I had a dark gray background and was going to do a soft white gradient effect in my selection.

When I went to do it, for some reason it was reversed. The gradient came into the selection but just above the selection was a darker color. So it looked like a gradient with a shadow all at once.

Then I looked at my layers and noticed I was not in the new layer, but I was on my background layer, so it was one layer.

So when I did the design, I went back to play with gradients and it wouldn't happen anymore. Does anyone know how this happened, it was a nice effect.

My mode was on "normal" and the only difference is that I was on a background layer already filled with color, so I thought that was it, but apparently not.

Can someone help me out here, because it looked pretty clean to get a gradient with a shadow effect on the outside of the selection. The only other way it does some of this effect, is when I feather the selection and use foreground/background color with the gradient tool, but it's not the same.

Anyone, someone, do you know?

I'll await your answers...cheers!

Nah, can't help you. I also get weird things happening, tho. Nothing I can describe, but this. When I'm about to do a gradient, color/transparant, the entire gradient becomes the color as in a fill, not the color to transparant...I'm beginning to believe I'm getting close to having to delete my pref file....

Patric.

Ah! I figured out what happened...as I went to bed last night it hit me. I wasn't on my background layer, it was another layer I was on with a shadow effect. So when I was on this same layer doing the gradient, it applied the shadow effect. It was pretty cool, but there's no sense in keeping them both on the same layer when I need to work and move them around.

But I'm glad I figured it out, because I had that itchy feeling on my brain last night.
*off to grab a burger and think more*

Cheers!

[QUOTE=Patteman]Nah, can't help you. I also get weird things happening, tho. Nothing I can describe, but this. When I'm about to do a gradient, color/transparant, the entire gradient becomes the color as in a fill, not the color to transparant...I'm beginning to believe I'm getting close to having to delete my pref file....

Patric.[/QUOTE]

yeah i'm getting that too. it's annoying