you can use soft eraser to erase the edges or you can use the mask way .. and i think the mask way so much easy .. just keep trying it and you'll be so happy with the results ..
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Add transparent gradient to an image
I have an image that has left side and right side faded from white to the image colour. I don't know how this was done and I would like to do the same to another image.
I am using adobe photoshop CS3. Image I like to replicate is attached
- testImage.gif
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File That has the fading effect that I am after
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Thanks EscuroAnjo,
I am having big trouble still :-( The image will look fine on a white background but I have a dark green with gradient in it. I thought the areas of the image faded will have content underneath show through but that is not the case here. I maybe doing something wrong? Could you help further?
Thanks
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you mean that the transparent areas after saving being not transparent anymore ?
i got you right so to make your trans areas keep trans feature you have to save your work as PNG of GIF but PNG is better .. if i got you wrongly please put a screenshot for your problem because i can't get you in right way ..
I use layer masks for a lot of things, but for these type of effects I don't.
I usually just create a new layer, fill with white, cut out the middle, and then apply a gaussian blur.
- 1.jpg
- 15 KB
Original
- 2.png
- 4 KB
White layer, area selected to cut
- 3.jpg
- 27 KB
With that part cut out
- 4.jpg
- 27 KB
With gaussian blur. (Use the preview to determine how much blur to use)
- 5.jpg
- 14 KB
Finished - I wanted to show more image, so I selected and moved the white edges a bit after the blur step.
One other method: on a new layer a white to transparent gradient could be applied to one side, then duplicated, flipped horizontal and merged to the original gradient.
- DSC01426-t-s.jpg
- 14 KB
Results of the above method
My apologies... I need to read more carefully (and EE needs edit and delete buttons!)
To place the image over a different color background, you'll need to do the fade as a mask like noted above.
You'll have to save as PNG with some type of transparency dither. The results of the faded area are going to look speckled. On your original image, it appears that some brushing was done with the mask to make the faded edge more irregular (with just a gradient the fade will start as an obvious straight line when saved as a PNG with transparency).
Better results would be achieved by placing the color you want behind the image under it in Photoshop (if you know what the color will be) and saving as PNG or JPG.
It was my beginner problem holding me back but EscuroAnjo was spot on in what he said. Basically I was choosing gradient black to white which didn't work for all backgrounds. I tried foreground to transparency and saved it as a png. It looks perfect now. Thank you.
Points go to EscuroAnjo but cannot let statler01 go empty handed because of major efforts in contributing. Thank you both for excellent support
Hassan
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