[real] [thelist] photoshop blending

D. Bruce Saurer g1notami at zoominternet.net
Fri Sep 5 23:53:31 CDT 2003


Andrew wrote:
> 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?

Hi Andrew

Add a mask to the layer (2nd icon from the left at the bottom of the layers
pallet)
Use the gradient tool (black to transparent) set to "reflected"
Click and drag from the center, (hold shift to constrain)
Play until you get what you want

bruce
g1notami at zoominternet.net



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