Preserved Topic: How to make a picture fade out?

Hi Photoshop-Pros!

I am kinda new to this stuff. But I've got a question: Does somebody know how to fade out lets say the right side of the picture? With a gradient I have to set two colors (light and dark blue)and then the whole right side of the picture turns light blue. But I want that the picture fades out instead.

Somebody got an idea?

Hmmmmm...So you want it to fade to transparent. Well...I'm not to good with my GIFs and I know you can't save transparency in a JPG, so to actually get it to fade out, you need to create a new channel, and say you want it to fade from left to right, you would do a normal gradient (with black and white as your colours, white is foreground) from left to right across the channel. Then return to your layer that you want to fade. Go to the selection menu and Go SELECTION>LOAD SELECTION and choose the channel that yopu just created. The selection won't look like much, but if you hit *DELETE* then you will get a nice smooth fade. If you don't know how that channel works, well, white is what it leaves alone, black is what it deletes, and anyshade of gray in between is deleted a certain amount according to how much black is in it. So light gray is hardly deleted, and dark gray is deleted alot. As for saving it, your going to have to ask someone else, because, I'm sorry to say, I really don't know *sighs, <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/rolleyes.gif">, thinks wishful thoughts*

heh heh...have Fun, your always learning.




Lepricosa...The Leprosy Ointment. For when your not half the man you used to be.

I'm not entirely sure what you want to do, but as far gradients go, there is the preset option for "Foreground to Transparent" under the options menu.
Oh, and as for saving it after skaarjj's tip, there's 2 options. as a jpeg, just make sure that whatever is behind the image is what will behind the image wherever it is displayed (such as your webpage background). As a gif, make the background the average color of whatver it wil be displayed against, and choose that color as transparent when you export it.



[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 04-06-2000).]

Can I assume you are using Photoshop? I'd do it this way. Background layer is what you want the "picture" to fade out to. Layer above this is the picture that "fades". Instead of creating a channel with a gradient , loading the channel and deleting (which WILL work fine), I'd make a layer mask. Put a gradient in the MASK (black to hide, white to reveal). That way you have a chance to change your mind, change how the gradient transitions, etc. A short gradient makes an abrupt transition, and gradual gradient makes a more gentle fade. You can start the gradient wherever and end it wherever. Lots more control that way. If you are working for print you just save a flattened version and that's it. If Web - makes sense for the background layer to be the same background the page uses - should fit in pretty cleanly. As far as I know, only PNG format lets you define transparency in 8 bit - regular GIFs only give you transparency as on or off - no satisfactory way to get smooth fades.

Umm...Steve, as far as I know, a layer mask is just like an active channel that doesn't actually create a channel. You get the exact same control over gradients and all that other stuff in channels as you do in quick masks. If you like the transparent red overlay effect of the mask, simply click on where the eye should be on the RGB channel while your editing channel is still selected and you get the exact same effect.




Lepricosa...The Leprosy Ointment. For when your not half the man you used to be.

Layer masks and the quick mask feature are different tools . Quick mask is sometimes really handy, but as you point out it's temporary and behaves like an activated channel with the exception of it being gone when you deactivate it! Layer masks hang around until you flatten,delete or apply, pertain to one specific layer, and are, in my opinion, far better than sliced bread.

Ok here's a smart ass remark:

Q: "How do you make a picture fade out?"
A: Shut off your monitor

LOL

Thanks to all of you, it was very helpful <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif"> I got the picture fade out to the background color now.

Daniel

Hey DP!!
Why you don't show us the result ???

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