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GRADIENT SKIRT TUTORIAL;

Base used in this tutorial is from Cherryville.
This tutorial will teach you a fairly easy way to make a gradient skirt. I, myself, don't use this method, but I discovered this trick not too long ago, and I thought it might be useful for some.

NOTE: This is NOT a shading tutorial.

You'll need a program that supports layers, layer blend modes, and has a tool for making selections.

	First off, start with a skirt that is already shaded. This is what I have. I already shaded the top, and finished the hair. As you can see, I shaded my skirt in black. You may use any color you want to shade the skirt, but you must take into consideration how dark or how light you want the skirt to be. I used black, because I want my skirt pretty dark. If you don't like the shade of the gradient when you reach the end of this tutorial, you may adjust the brightness of your shaded skirt.
	Here, I have selected the skirt using the magic wand tool. Make sure that the outline of the skirt is selected as well. Don't click inside the skirt to select! Click on any ampty space outside the skirt, and it should be selected with no problems.
	As you can see, this is where we start with the gradient. First off, create a new layer. Then pick your gradient and fill the skirt with it. Then move to the next, and final step. I'm going for an purple-orange gradient here. I like how the color of her top matches with orange.
	Now, on your layer palette, go to the layer that the gradient is on. On the drop down menu of the layer blend modes, change "normal" to "color." You may disselect your skirt now, if you haven't done so already. If you don't like the brightness of the gradient, adjust the brightness of the skirt itself, like I previously mentioned.
	Here, you can see my finished result. You should have a very nice gradient right now. If you did the skirt in black, like I did, you may have an ugly black outline. Well, for that, all you have to do is go to your skirt layer, and replace the pure black with a slightly lighter shade of black, which would be a dark gray of some sort.

And that's it! Here's to hoping that someone found it useful.