Preserved Topic: How do I fade one photograph into another? Then another... etc.

I would like to fade one image into another, with a feathering-type effect. Or, perhaps, take one image, and combine it into another. Any ideas (I know this is probably a simple question, but I'm really stuck!) I work with Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and Quark Express 4.0... I'll take suggestions for either! Thanks!

I'd say the easiest way is to have each picture on a seperate layer and lowering the opacity till you get something you like. You can also play with blurs and then to blend it around the edges into the background. I would do this with the eraser tool and a really light, BIG eraser brush around the edges lightly(on the layer with the image you are trying to blend).

I'm sure you can do it another way but this is how I would do it.

Screamdesign has a tutorial on just this.
http://www.screamdesign.com/graphics/photoshop/tips/imagefx/imgfx6.html

Lets see if thats the right link!

- Dan -

It's not even close to a simple question, and you can't imagine how many answers there are to it. You havn't given us enough information about what you want to accomplish to really give much help. Do you want to do a left/right or top/bottom fade? Or is it something like a face emerging from a wall? There are jsut about as many solutions as there are artisits.
I will say that I don't care much for the ScreamDesign approach because it doesn't give much leeway for changes. I work in the commercial arts, which is a nice way of saying I work on other people's ideas. Other people's ideas are subject to change, often long after the "undo" or history palette gives you a way out. The only sane way to feather an image into another AND keep options available is with a layer mask. One image in a layer above the other. Top layer has a layer mask. What's white in the layer mask shows; what's black is hidden; shades of gray represent more or less opacity. To create the same effect as the Scream tutorial you would put the gradient in the layer mask. Same net result, only you can screw with the layer mask to your heart's content (even weeks later) until you love it. Further benefit is that the top layer's opacity and blend mode can be manipulated for even greater subtlty. Does that address your question?

You could always try putting each of the photos you want on seperate layers, in the order you want to see them, first at the top, and create a channel for each. On each channel you do a simple black to white gradient, white for what you want to erase, black for what you want to keep. Do this for each of the layers. Then, one at a time, go to the layer that corresponds to the first channel, so your top layer, load the selection (SELECTION>LOAD SELECTION...) of the first channel, and press delete. Deselect the image (CTRL+D) and then keep doing this, working your way down the layers and channels, untill you get the desired effect.




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