Talk:Strange Matter Bloon/@comment-4814638-20130901032917/@comment-5294711-20130903032738

You have to select the bloon first...

Anyhoo, select the bloon, then retract it a bit so it keeps the border. Then, create a new layer and pour your gradient in a diagonal direction. Next, go to the old layer, recolor the border. Next, use the brush tool and paint the "light spot" with different shades of gray, each shade for one layer, then merge them, set to overlay and decreaes the opacity. Then grabs the eyedropper tool, go to the gradient layer, pick the dark color up and uses brush to replace part of the light part with the dark part to make the curve. I think that's all.