I read that JPGs can't accommodate alpha channels but even a tif didn't work.
I tried different functions like Refine Edge, feather, etc - all to no avail. I was working in PSD.
Can anyone help with such a simple thing?
Thanks,
Brian
PNG will probably give you the highest quality/best transition of the blur. Googling either "photoshop transparency PNG" or "photoshop transparency GIF" should give you several tutorials.
PNG is what you want to use.
That's why when I got into alpha channels etc, I got hopelessly lost as a newcomer to Photoshop.
Is there perhaps an online utility for this, like I've seen with rounding corners, for example?
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:58:52 -0800, Brian_R...@adobeforums.com
wrote:
Copied the background layer by dragging it to the little folder icon at the bottom of the layers palette. (I then double-clicked on the name and called it "Image layer" – you don't have to, but I like to name layers as a matter of course.)
Selected the Background layer and filled it with white*.
Selected the Image layer and added a layer mask by clicking on the little mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette (3rd from left).
Took the gradient tool and chose black to white (should be the default). Drew the tool across the image to fill the mask (making sure the mask is selected in the layers palette.)
Voilá!
You can keep the layered image by doing a "Save for Web" which will prepare the file for the web page.
*If your web page had a different colour you could use that here.
With practice it goes quicker!
The only other option is to use the Paint bucket tool, but that did nothing. So, I have three layers, not two. No matter I suppose. I've used the fill layer in such circumstances before, but how do you fill the background directly?
how do you fill the background directly?
Alt+Backspace will fill the background layer with the current background colour.
OOPS! That fills with Foreground color. Never Mind.
Shows what I still have to learn.
Well, you don't really need a Background at all. It will flatten when Saved as jpg.