Adding multiple gradients to a layer [2019] [Locked]

[Zephemeral]

Note from moderator:

Things have changed since 2019 when this thread was started and it is now locked. If you have a questions about the new gradient tool, please start a new thread where we will be happy to help you! The information about the Multiply blending mode has not changed and is still valid.

I'm currently running PS 2020 on Windows 10. In the past, I could use the gradient tool to add multiple gradients to a layer. Now every time I use the tool more than once on the same layer, it erases the previous gradient and leaves only the most recent one. Is there any way I can correct this? Or do I have to add a new layer for every individual gradient I apply? 

[davescm]

Your thought process is indeed logical but all documentation  I've seen on blend modes is based on calculation of pixel colour values rather than transparency which appears to be applied separately.

You can achieve what you were attempting by blending black to white gradients in a layer mask. There darken works as you would expect.

Dave

[Lowell Isaac]

None of these answers worked for me--- setting the blend mode to multiply is not at all what you want. And "multiple" isn't an option. I agree-- Photoshop should not change defaults and then act like they didn't. We need to know how to use this [cursing removed]. ANSWER: when you select the gradient, there is a box in the upper left of the control panel along the top that just says "gradient." Select it-- then scroll to "classic gradiant" -- POOF.

Why can't folks just say that? Why not add it to the little video tutorial that pops up? [abuse removed]

[BeViljoen]

Wait come back! HELP! You get it, I'm trying to fix the same issue but I dont see it or dont understand howw. So you click the gradient tool (left sidebar), then there's a box in the top bar that says gradient? Or is it in the gradient editor? (I dont see it in either place) .

I see a house (home button), then a "Tool Preset Picker", then the gradient bar which when you click on it opens the gradient editor, then the different gradient styles (linear, radial etc etc). Is this where I'm supposed to see this "gradient dropdown"? 

P.S I'm using an older version of PS which supposedly, and very ironically, IS the classic version that the new versions are referring to (v. 21.2.9), but according to ChatGPT doesnt have the classic way of using the gradient tool. However I'm sure it must be hidden in there somewhere. 

Any advice?

P.P.S please no-one tell me to create multiple layers for each gradient, and please also dont tell me to change the blending mode. That's not it.