[thelist] photoshop blending

[Norman Bunn]

At 02:25 PM 9/5/2003, Andrew wrote:


>Hi All
>
>I am playing around with an image and am trying to get the middle portion 
>of an
>image to blend/fade at the edges.
>
>The image is a beach with blue sky.  I am trying to achieve part of the bottom
>beach at the bottom and part of the top of the sky at the top.  It is 9.7mm H
>and 210mm W (landscape) so that the middle is white (for text) but I dont want
>the clean edges i get by just cutting out the middle.  It would be nice to 
>have
>the full picture with the middle faded or just blended leaving white?
>
>Anyone has a tip how to do this please?
>
>Andrew

I recommend the marque tool with feathering.  Be sure to select a white 
background color and set the feathering to 10-20px (or whatever works best 
for you).  Highlight the area you want removed and click delete.  That 
should do it.

Norman
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