OK Here is my question??

[Jane]

Looking at Artis picture as she faded Christ in the back ground here on the top and the center is plain then fades out from there, How is this done,?? The mirros part I can do and the animation I will deal with later but the BG and the the way the Christ picture plain in the center and fades out as it goes out from the center is what I am wonting to earn

Thanks to any one that will help me

[Jane]

Doggone it I cant get any help at all on this one

[cooldude53]

Jane! I think I have an Idea of what you want to do. It can be done in PSP. I believe it is done in the layers of the photo. I do not know for sure exactly how many in the photo but I think there are at least 3. If you want to center things or clean it up you must do each layer of the photo.

This is right up Marlene's expert knowledge.

I wish she was here..

Jane I just did a count of the layers in the photo and there are 4 maybe 5. Just wanted to let you know.

[Jane]

Marlene was supposed to send that tut to me but I never got it, Arti I am sure has some stashed back somewhere but she dont get on here a lot either, So I am searching the web for some good ones but if you run across any please post them in here Thanks

[Arti]

For Christ or any image you want to fade into a background, select the lasso tool and set it to feather.

Draw the selection around the image but not on the edge of the image but inside so it will feather. How far in you draw the selection is dependent upon how much of the image you want to be feathered as well as the number you set the feathering at.

Once you have your selection drawn, do a copy and save as a new layer. The feathered image will now be on it's own layer. You won't be able to notice it unless you hide the layer under it that you drew the selection on. Then place that feathered layer on the background where you want it to be.

The same steps above for the part of the water in the background. do that the same way except you will kind of zig zag your drawing of the selection. Then once you save the feathered layer, you select Adjust/Blur/Guassian blur and set the amount of blur you want for the image. Not so much that it totally blurs too much. That amount is dependent on how you wish the image to look. I'd pretty much have to do some screenshots to explain better how to get that feathered image to look like it's actually on the water.

That one though is more than a couple of images worked into it. In the instance of that image, one is the water background, the other is a featherd arch behind Christ with the stone walk which that part then is feathered and added a gaussian blur to just the stones.

When you have finished with the original image layer that you used to feather and are satisified with the feathered layers, then delete that original image layer as it's no longer needed.


Sorry I haven't been here lately. I've been overloaded with so much it seems.

[Jane]

I have set the amount many times but it is seems to cute the image instead of fading it the way I wont it to I have went from 5-30 and more on the feather amount and it all seems to come out the same, Maby I need to set another number on the softness or something, I know how to do the mirror part it is the fading I wont to get down like I wont

[Cheryl]

This might help a little:

http://thrumywindow.yuku.com/topic/247/Misting-Made-Easy

[Jane]

Thanks Arti and Cheryl I will work on it some more and see if the softening helps out a lot more I may be back for more advice so hang in there

[Jane]

I have been doing the point to point all the time, first try on the freehand, but what does the smoothing do to it? and I have tried working with that and I cant see the difference. I have tried the gaussin blur yet will work on that later toaday when I get back from the VA with DH this afternoon.

Find the fading is the same amount if you use 20 or 50 seems like, I wont a smooth fade out of more than just a dab

[Cheryl]

Hi Jane,

I always use the point to point too. I think the smoothing gets rid of any jagged edges when you draw around your image.

Another option is to set your feather, draw around your image, then "selections > invert". Hit the delete key several times till you're happy with the outcome. The larger the feather setting, the larger your fade should be.

[Jane]

Thanks Cheryl, I copied and pasted the tutorial to MSword and saved it then I copied this advice and pasted it om the tutorial so when I print it out I will have all of it on my copy I will be trying it later today and see how it works

[Jane]

I did the selection >invert and hit delete and it came out beautiful but then how do I save it and post it on a new background??? I did the copy and paste thing and it had the whole faded out bg with it to when I pasted it on the bg I had set of it and it was way to faded on it

[Cheryl]

Jane - I'm not quite sure I understand. When you invert and hit delete, there should not be any remaining background on the outside.

Maybe have the image you want to fade as a layer on your background and fade it right on there.

[Jane]

I did that and it was on a white BG one time as I hit copy an then paste as a new layer the whole thing was pasted on it, Then again I did the same thing and it wasa checkered bg and I tried copy and paste and all of it went on my new BG so something I am not doing right

[Cheryl]

Is your background layer a "raster" layer? If your background layer is a jpg., please right click it on the layers palette and choose "promote background layer", this should change it to a raster layer.