Gradient Fade?

[TweaK]

How would i do that in photo 7?
As in...
Full image opacity ~~~~~~~~~~~> Completely transparent

I can't get it

 

[Jason]

do u mean like from 100%-0% from left to right or whatever direction?

I was wondering the same thing..I try different things but they end up looking crappy..

 

[TweaK]

This for example... Cept at a longer fade.

 

[Jason]

ya..thats what i wanna know too...didn't avalon make that one?

Avalon what do we do? ..

 

[pat]

there are many ways to fade the edges of an image...

simplest being to just take an eraser with the right brush and take off what you don't want of the layer...

 

[MacMan]

This might be better explained on my website, but basically you just create a mask for the layer you want to fade (button near the new layer button) and then you can use the grad tool for a nice even blend. I don't use the eraser because I can always go back and mess with a mask if I don't like it, erasing is perminent when it's off your history.

 

[Sicloan]

MacMan that is what i was gunna type until you posted it -.-

keyword: LAYERMASK!!!
lestat wrote a tutorial on it @ lestat.missionsix.net/ very helpful indeed.

 

[pat]

I was going for the simplest method...due to the unfortunate truth that many people know only how to use the basic tools and filters.

 

[TweaK]

Layer masks = the seksi. But when I try to save the image, it wont let me gradient fade into complete transparency

 

[MacMan]

What's this about saving? If you want full to no transparency, then use 100% black for your foreground and 100% white for your background when you use the grad tool.

 

[ProdigiousLucidOsprey]

You guys want to be graphics designers and you cant even use layer masks..... and no that was not Avalon's picture.

 

[The Iconoclast]

Use a layer mask...layer mask basically puts a mask over the layer...

Whatever is white in the layer mask is at 100% opacity...whatever is black is 0%...IN THE LAYER MASK...use a gradient...

Don't expect to go very far without layer masks...

There are a hundred different ways to implement layer masks. I use em in almost every one of my pictures. Try putting a picture in a layer mask with some contrast changes maybe...that's always a nice addition to trendwhore...

Oh and the reason you can't do something completely transparent is probably because you're saving as a jpeg...

Only gifs and pdfs support transparant...

Unfortunately, pdfs can't be uploaded into servers and then displayed...it just doesn't make sense unless you expect everyone to own a copy of photoshop

 

[Sicloan]

Originally posted by The Iconoclast
it just doesn't make sense unless you expect everyone to own a copy of photoshop

But everyone DOES own a copy!!!, illegally of course =P

 

[The Iconoclast]

HAHA!

Wait are we allowed to say that? :tnt

 

[TweaK]

Shh qiet.

Prod: So im not alloud to ask questions? Gotta learn sometime, eh?

Inconoclast: Nah, im saving as a gif.

Thats the best I can do... I mean, its either
| img | blank |
| img | some pattern transparency dither |

 

[Sicloan]

tweak are you using a layer mask??? with a gradient for the fade?

 

[The Iconoclast]

When you save as a gif, you get a box with settings for gif saving...could you screenshot that gif or tell us what you picked?

(Its the menu with "Version: 87A, 89A, Interlaced...etc. etc.")

 

[pat]

PNG's support ALPHA transparency.

Unfortunately, they are only really supported by the decent browsers, like Mozilla...not the one almost everyone uses - IE...

 

[MacMan]

I see what you were tying to go for tweak, but do what pat said and save with alpha transparency.

Use a layer mask...layer mask basically puts a mask over the layer...

So true... so very... very true!

 

[TweaK]

Originally posted by pat
PNG's support ALPHA transparency.

Unfortunately, they are only really supported by the decent browsers, like Mozilla...not the one almost everyone uses - IE...

Godamnit, that puts it over 100kb over the sig limit. My new sig accidently made that effect... And it looks like shit without it. Any way to compress?