Gradient applied to letters as a whole

I'd like to apply a gradient to my letters, but I'd like the gradient to progress from the first to the last, i.e. the first letter is black, the middle letters get progressively lighter until the last letter is white.
I DO NOT want each letter to have the same gradient of light to dark.

Once you create outlines of text you have a group of coumpound shapes.
But a Group of Compound Paths is not the same as a single Compound Path. If you swipe across a selected Group with the Grad tool, you will apply separate Grad Fills to each object in the Group. It will initially look like one continuous Grad Fill, but it is not.
This is an important distinction, especially when explaining it to someone unfamiliar. Besides just being inefficient, if after doing this with a Group, the user then decides to, say, adjust the spacing between the characters, he will be moving the individual character's grad fill relative to those in the other objects, thereby breaking the merely apparent continuity.
JET

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Weird. I'm sure I responded to this but don't see it anywhere.
> Linda, I didn't point you towards Sync, but towards AutoSync. So you have a bunch of images selected, maybe enlarging the FilmStrip so you can see the effect on other images, and then apply your crop. AutoSync applies it to all of them.
> John
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How do I add a gradient to a layer mask to counteract a gradual change in tone from one end of a photo to the other?

I swear I must be going nutso. I have a photo taken with a rather extreme 10mm shift of a shift lens, which consequently has a gradual darkening toward the top of the photo. No problem, says I. I just added a layer mask, clicked on the gradient tool and drew a line (in the appropriate direction) with that tool. What I got was a transparent area at the black end (of the gradient applied to the mask) grading to the darker part of the image showing through at the other end (of the gradient.)
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Thanks, that's exactly what I've done.....now I'm at least certain I'm not going nutso . Specifically, I have image 2 stacked above image 1, with the mask for image 2 appearing on the same layer. However, when I apply the gradient, exactly as you have indicated, I do not get image 4. Instead I get image 2 showing through at the top where the mask is white, and then a gradual fade over the black part of the mask to the diamond pattern typical of transparent layer.
Well, I be darned. I just tried it again and now it's working exactly as you described and exactly as I had expected it to. I was using a .psd and wondered if that were the problem, although why I couldn't imagine. So chose a .dng I had just downloaded and the process worked perfectly. Huh? So I went back to the .psd (a test image that I had done to see how much falloff there would be using this shift lens at it's fullest shift) and it worked perfectly also. I have no idea. I promise you I did exactly as you indicated above in all the times I tried to get the falloff subdued. Yes, I did the mask in the right direction, as you've shown above. Yes I used a duplicate layer, and yes I applied the mask to the duplicate layer. I can even get it to work using the mask applied by the Curves layer I used to lighten the duplicate layer. If you can think of anything that may have been set wrong, please let me know, because I think I checked everything including layer properties and those of the gradient tool as well. And I'm certain it will happen again when I'm on some deadline and really need the gradient. You know about Murphy's Laws, right?
Thanks, though. I'll mark this question answered and if I find something I set wrong, on purpose or accidentally, I'll pass it along.
BAB

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