I'm working on a project in which I need to blend a gold color into black, but the part I'm trying to use a gradient on is curved.
When I do a gradient, the bottom of this curve that I want to be black is gold, because it's right below the starting point of the gradient.
So I'm wondering if there's a way to make it so the gradient follows a path down and transitions that way rather than a linear way.
You probably want to use an angle gradient instead of a linear one.
You can do this both as a gradient overlay setting (for layer effects), and as a gradient fill setting (for vector shapes).
It will go around a center and curve, like so:
Thoose kind of gradients are easily done in Vectors using a mesh fill, so you probably can:
Import the PSD image as a reference into Ilustrator or Corel.
Make your mesh
Export that and use it as a fill on your masked shape.
Just an idea.
You can always use an extremely large brush with the hardness set to zero. Then you can just "paint" your gradient any shape you want. And you can control/command select a layer to make a selection mask that matches your shape.
