[thelist] How to Fade the Edges of an Image

Gina K. Anderson gina at sitediva.com
Thu Nov 2 17:24:30 CST 2000


Greg,

|How does one take an image and fade out the edges?
|I have tried everything in Microsoft Image
|Composer, but to no avail.

Microsoft Image Composer is pretty limited from what I remember, but if it has a
"blur" tool, you can maybe do something that would satisfy you.

Take the image that you want to fade the edges out of, and make the area around
the image 20 to 40 pixels wider. Meaning, add 20 pixels to each side of the
image that has the same color background as the page you are putting it on.
Then, use the square selection tool and draw about 10 pixels *inside* the image
itself. So when you are done, the selection lines will be 10 pixels or so from
the edges of the photo. Now invert the selection, and do the blur, pushing up
the value until it looks good to you. If you do too much, it won't look very
good because you will be able to see where the blur starts.

That's a quick and dirty way to get a slight blur with something like Image
Composer--if it has blur, I can't remember. If not, you will have to get
something else to accomplish it. You'll have better luck with something like
Photoshop, but if you have a tight budget there is a great program called Paint
Shop Pro. You can download a 30 day trial version at:
http://www.jasc.com/download_4.asp

The download version is $99, and it's definitely worth a look.

Gina






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