Photoshop 7.0 help!

[faith_2004]

Hi,

Happy New Year Everyone! I have some questions regarding the three images which I posted on my website---

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1. Creating the fog effect at the bottom for picture 1 and picture 2. I tried increasing the feather pixel with
marquee, but it will only create such effect for the WHOLE picture frame instead.

2. How do I create the fading effect at the bottom of picture 3 (profiles)?

3. How do I create fading effect for picture 4 (computer)?

4. Does anybody know where I can download a program which allow me to edit Chinese text with different style like in picture 1 and 3?

I appreciate any suggestions.

[edited by: korkus2000 at 2:35 pm (utc) on Dec. 29, 2003]
[edit reason] No picture reviews please [/edit]

[korkus2000]

Questions 1, 2 and 3 are all using a transparent to color gradient on a layer above the collaged image. That creates the fog or haze effect.

As far as the chinese you may want to look around for a font for that. I don't know how to set up a chinese character set on a computer, but someone here probably knows a way to do it.

[faith_2004]

korkus2000,

Much thanks for the tip. On photoshop 7.0, there is no
option such as foreground to transparent or color to transparent, only color stops which is quite difficult to manipulate. Any suggestions?

[faith_2004]

Actually I just figured out the answer. I would check "transparency" option, then adjust the upper color stop to set opacity level.

[dillonstars]

I'm glad you figured a way to do it, with Photoshop there are always any number of ways in which to complete a problem.

But you are wrong on one point. In Photoshop 7 you can do a color to transparent gradient. Simply click the drop down menu next to the gradient selector in the option bar and the second gradient from the left is a colour to transparent gradient. Unless it is very different in the Chinese version.

If you also marquee off an area that goes right to the bottom and side edges but only half way up the page, and then do select>feather , it will not feather the edges that are right up against the edge of the document, only the one half way up the page.

Then you can fill that marquee with colour in a blank layer, or use it to mask off an existing layer. If you mask it by creating a layer mask at the bottom of the layer palette, you will not damage the original layer and leave everything editable.