First select gradient then look at Options bar which is below menus. Click on rectangle with gradient which is in Options bar (first option) to open Gradient Editor dialog then select different gradient if you want. Click on image and drag. That's basics but this tool can be complex if you don't know how to use it and you need good explanation. See related link for tutorial.
Select the gradient tool and set the tool to linear gradient in the gradient's palette. Choose one of the metal presets. Click add noise to make it look grainy and then add motion blur.
In Photoshop for instance, it is used to shade an area of something. If you took a blank work area and dragged your gradient tool across it, you will see that it looks like a large shadow going from light to dark.
There are several ways to remove wrinkles in Photoshop Elements: using Healing Brush Tool, Clone Stamp Tool or using Guided Edit. See related links.
Type Tool from toolbox on the left side of screen. Shortcut is letter T, tool icon in toolbox is also letter T.
Photoshop have Horizontal Type Tool and Horizontal Type Mask Tool which you can use to type text in Photoshop.
Gradients in Adobe Illustrator are a little tricky to figure out. Once your object is created, you need to click the gradient button at the bottom of the toolbar and then you can adjust the colors and angles using the gradient palette window and the gradient tool on the toolbar.
You can either click and hold each icon on the tool bar until the pop-out menu shows and you find the tool you're looking for, or you can try selecting Photoshop Help from the Help menu and entering the tool's name into the search box.
The erase tool in Photoshop will allow a person to remove parts of a photo. Also using the select tool and then clicking Delete will remove part of the photo.
a gradient when used in photoshop is a layer that when selected has the option of having a start colour that moves through shades of that colour to another. I.e. starts white and as it moves down the page for instance wll go darker and darker until it black.
Photoshop is not bad, it is simply a tool.
In Photoshop, the pucker tool is part of the Liquify tool. The pucker tool is used to move pixels towards the center of the brush area.
Your computer must not be powerful enough to run Photoshop. The program itself wouldn't crash for a tool but it would crash if your computer can't handle a specific tool or the app itself. Side note: Photoshop 9 is called CS2 and PSE could refer to Photoshop Elements or Photoshop Extended...always specify what you are talking about when you ask questions...initialisms are not helpful.