Pradip Chowdhury
Gradients can be used for Tinting or Toning in any version of photoshop. It can add colour very subtly to an image making it look good. It can be done in any version of Photoshop, even Photoshop7. It is also very easy to do.
This is the tinted image.
This is the original image.
The tutorial is here
Other photoshop tutorials are here