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acme_graphics2006-05-14 07:50 pm
seleneheart) wrote in acme_graphics2006-05-14 07:50 pm
Fade out
I wanted to do a picture like a gradient . . . where you can gradually fade the colors away from one side to the other with the gradient stops. I wanted the picture to gradually fade away.
I don't see any way of saving a picture as a gradient, so this is what I came up with:
1. Using this original, the first thing I did was crop, unsharpen mask, and auto correct colors and levels.
2. This is what I got:
3. Now I open a new file, 100x100, and set the background "transparent."
4. Make a new layer. If you don't do this, when you paste your image, it will go on the transparent layer and we don't want that. So, copy your image, paste to the transparent file, set the opacity to 5%.
5. Paste your image again. Set the opacity to 10%. Take the chalk eraser (which is near the end of the list in my default brushes), and just barely erase the right side of the image on that layer.
6. Paste the image again. Set the opacity to 15%. Do the same thing with the chalk eraser, but indent it a little more, taking more of the image. Get a round brush and thoroughly erase over the part on this layer that is over the erased part in the layer below.
7. Continue pasting and erasing, and stepping the opacity level up with each layer, until you have just a little of your image remaining on the left side. Keep the opacity of this layer at 100%.
8. Here's a shot of my layer's pallete to give you a better idea what I'm talking about.
9. Now you have your final result . . . I created another new file, this time white, and color filled it with #c59cb4:
(Or you could leave it without a background)
10. Then I went back to the fade out image, hit select > all layers, then select > all, edit > copy merged. I pasted it onto the background, giving me this:
Why would I bother will all of this when I can get the same effect by applying a gradient on top? Because it's bound to change the color of the underlying image some. For example, the color adjusted image with a standard gradient, set to overlay:
Now I would need to fool around with other things to get the colors on the left side to be the same as they were.
For this method, the less you take away from the top layer, the more of the color you fixed will remain.
I don't see any way of saving a picture as a gradient, so this is what I came up with:
1. Using this original, the first thing I did was crop, unsharpen mask, and auto correct colors and levels.
2. This is what I got:
3. Now I open a new file, 100x100, and set the background "transparent."
4. Make a new layer. If you don't do this, when you paste your image, it will go on the transparent layer and we don't want that. So, copy your image, paste to the transparent file, set the opacity to 5%.
5. Paste your image again. Set the opacity to 10%. Take the chalk eraser (which is near the end of the list in my default brushes), and just barely erase the right side of the image on that layer.
6. Paste the image again. Set the opacity to 15%. Do the same thing with the chalk eraser, but indent it a little more, taking more of the image. Get a round brush and thoroughly erase over the part on this layer that is over the erased part in the layer below.
7. Continue pasting and erasing, and stepping the opacity level up with each layer, until you have just a little of your image remaining on the left side. Keep the opacity of this layer at 100%.
8. Here's a shot of my layer's pallete to give you a better idea what I'm talking about.
9. Now you have your final result . . . I created another new file, this time white, and color filled it with #c59cb4:
(Or you could leave it without a background)
10. Then I went back to the fade out image, hit select > all layers, then select > all, edit > copy merged. I pasted it onto the background, giving me this:
Why would I bother will all of this when I can get the same effect by applying a gradient on top? Because it's bound to change the color of the underlying image some. For example, the color adjusted image with a standard gradient, set to overlay:
Now I would need to fool around with other things to get the colors on the left side to be the same as they were.
For this method, the less you take away from the top layer, the more of the color you fixed will remain.