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Hi Everybody-
I’m on PS CS and Windows XP Pro. Let me defend myself first by saying that I’ve asked about this before in this forum (a while back), read the instructions in the help sections (again today) and read about it (a while back) in the FAQ’s (didn’t find it today there for some reason; I did check), and I have still never been able to get feathering to work for me. I must be missing something really basic.
What I want is a photo with feathered edges that blend into to the background,…whatever that is, whether it’s a background color or vector object. In this case, I want a photo’s edges to blend into the surface of a beveled vector object (round rectangle object which is acting as a backdrop/frame of sorts). I should mention that this photo has already been given some layer style effects as well as others(inverted/desaturated/satin/stroke bevel…) Let me tell you what I’m doing and hopefully I can be cured of "featheritis"
I’m clicking on the marquee tool and drawing a rounded rectangle over the photo so that the rectangle is a smaller size than the photo. The photo layer is selected thru this maneuver. I then click the select menu and choose ‘feather’. When the feather window comes up I choose 20 pixels, click ‘Ok’ and then nothing happens.
I’m still on the bottom of the learning curve in PS, so I appreciate any help. Thanks !! Frank Bright
I’m on PS CS and Windows XP Pro. Let me defend myself first by saying that I’ve asked about this before in this forum (a while back), read the instructions in the help sections (again today) and read about it (a while back) in the FAQ’s (didn’t find it today there for some reason; I did check), and I have still never been able to get feathering to work for me. I must be missing something really basic.
What I want is a photo with feathered edges that blend into to the background,…whatever that is, whether it’s a background color or vector object. In this case, I want a photo’s edges to blend into the surface of a beveled vector object (round rectangle object which is acting as a backdrop/frame of sorts). I should mention that this photo has already been given some layer style effects as well as others(inverted/desaturated/satin/stroke bevel…) Let me tell you what I’m doing and hopefully I can be cured of "featheritis"
I’m clicking on the marquee tool and drawing a rounded rectangle over the photo so that the rectangle is a smaller size than the photo. The photo layer is selected thru this maneuver. I then click the select menu and choose ‘feather’. When the feather window comes up I choose 20 pixels, click ‘Ok’ and then nothing happens.
I’m still on the bottom of the learning curve in PS, so I appreciate any help. Thanks !! Frank Bright
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