Fade Image

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cavein82
Aug 24, 2007
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I have an image that I would like to fade out the left side of. For instance, if the image is 8 inches wide, I am trying to have the last inch of the image on the left side fade off to completely transparent. Is this possible?
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Ed_Hannigan
Aug 24, 2007
Yes, very easily. You make a Layer Mask and apply a Black to white gradient to it. Look up Layer Mask in Help and on the web. It is something you MUST learn about. There are many tutorials on the internet.
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cavein82
Aug 24, 2007
Thanks! I’m somewhat new to Photoshop. I’ll check it out!
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Ed_Hannigan
Aug 24, 2007
Here’s a simple tutorial. Make sure to change Background into a Layer to get transparency, rather than a white background. To do that double-click on Backgrounds in the Layers palette.

<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/photoshop-fade-layer-mask>

Layer masks are incredibly useful once you get the hang of using them.
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Buko
Aug 24, 2007
Be sure to work on a copy of the original file so you don’t eff up your original.

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