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PSP Tutorials - Fading Images to Background Colors with PSP

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How To Fade Image Edges to Background Colors?

If you have an image on your Web page, you may want to fade the image to the background color on the edges. You can follow the tutorial below to fad the bottom edge to the background color:

  • Follow the steps in the previous tutorial to add 100 pixel margins to your image.
  • Open the expanded image: port_with_margins.jpg. It has 780x640 pixels.
  • Add a new raster layer.
  • Go to menu: View > Toolbars. You will get the Toolbars dialog box.
  • Select the Tool Options Window and close the dialog box.
  • Select the Selection tool on the Tool Palette. You will see the Tool Option dialog box showing you the options for the Selection tool.
  • Set Selection Type: Rectangle; Feather: 75; Antialias: checked.
  • Press and hold left mouse button to select the bottom edge, 780x200 pixels, of the image.
  • Use Flood Fill tool with color of RGB=(240,224,192) to fill the selected area.
  • Select the Selection tool again, and press right mouse button to release the selected area.
  • Merge all layers, and save the image as port_with_faded_edges.jpg. It will look like this:
               

How To Create a Top Left Corner Image with a Fading Color?

If you want to put background image to the top left corner of your Web page, you need to fad the right lower part of the image to the background color. The tutorial below tells you how to create a top left corner image with a fading color:

  • Continue with the previous tutorial.
  • Open the image: port_with_faded_edges.jpg. It has 780x640 pixels.
  • Add a new raster layer.
  • Create a fading edge on the right side by following the steps in the previous tutorial.
  • Add another new raster layer.
  • Use the rectangle selection tool with feather=75, and select the right bottom part of the image starting at position=(200,200).
  • Use Flood Fill tool with color of RGB=(240,224,192) to fill the selected area.
  • Select the Selection tool again, and press right mouse button to release the selected area.
  • In the Layer Palette, move the Opacity scale to 85% on the last layer. You will see some background image starting to show up in the faded area.
  • Merge all layers.
  • Use the rectangle selection tool with feather=0, and select the center part of the image without the margins.
  • Press Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy and paste a new image.
  • Save the new image as port_as_top_left_corner.jps. It will look like this:
               

How To Avoid the Antialias Edges When Cutting and Pasting?

When you finish a larger image and want to select one area as a new image, you can use the Selection tool to cut and paste that area into a new image. But the new image will show very thin antialias edges. To avoid the antialias edges, you need to uncheck the "Antialias" checkbox and set feather=0 on the selection tool option Palette.

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