If Gradient has any flaws, it’s that it feels like a feature rather than an app. It seems like there should be a suite of similar tools to complement it. But, at well under a fiver, we’re not ...

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Sitting quietly in the Tools panel of the popular image editors Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Pixelmator, is the Gradient tool, a wonderfully useful painting tool that lets you create a ...