You can name it whatever you want. If you want to change the name, double-click on the thumbnail of the gradient you want to change. To give you a little example, I have included a shot of the gradient editor with one of my custom gradients. Play around with that a little. I have also included a simple sphere shape made with the radial gradient tool and a weird pipe thingy that I made with the linear gradient tool and a custom linear gradient I concocted.
Gradients are cool.
Next week I think I will talk to you about managing your new gradients so that you don't have 4 million in your palette. Talk at you in seven days. Copyright 2000 KW Media Group. Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.