[muglo] Re: gradiant transparency

It is pretty easy once you know how.  Once you open the photo in Photoshop 
double click on the layer and photo shop will rename it Layer 0 or you can 
choose a name.  Then you click on the second button from left at the bottom of 
the Layer Palette, called add vector mask.  Now make sure you have the gradient 
tool selected and drag from the top of the photo down.  You can continue past 
were the photo ends what this does is make the transition more gradual and the 
bottom will not be totally transparent.  Play with it and you will find what 
works for your situation.  Generally when I do this I make duplicate the layer 
and then start playing with it but it is important to turn the visibility of 
the layer you are not working on off other wise the effect can't be seen and it 
could be frustrating until you realize that you are changing the opacity of the 
top layer but the layer underneath is an exact duplicate so in essence there is 
no effect to see. 

Hope that you understand my convoluted explanation 

Gerhard 


On Thursday, October 04, 2007, at 04:48PM, "Doug Bale" <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote: 
>For instance, to smoothly fade out the bottom of a photo so that type 
>could be placed over it, is it possible to use a gradient to take the 
>image from 100 per cent at the top to zero at the bottom? 
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