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Just a little creative adjustment on a light challenged shot...

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In spirit of those grilled cheese sandwiches with holy icons that crop up on eBay every now and then... I decided to pimp my own relic. I make toast look good. (It was a slow Monday, LOLZ)

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QUESTION: How do you gradient something into transparency for example this image:
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I'm assuming you mean the little flares in the background?

My guess is you'd have to use some sort of mask. I am not positive though. I'm just guessing as I'm the type that figures it out while it's in front of me, and I'm not in front of my Mac or photoshop.

What I'd try is going into quick mask mode, then grab the ellipse gradient tool, drag out a circle by pressing shift while dragging, then with the spot in the middle added, exit quick mask mode. You might have to invert the selection depending on what you want to do. Then from there you can add effects, filters, whatever and it will slowly fade out. Mess around with that technique. I'm sure you can do it somehow that way.
 
In the gradient settings panel, just click on the gradient opacity tab and you can change it to 0%. (see diagram)

Would that work for having that flare pattern in the background of the image that was posted fade out? Certainly it works for color, but will it work for the other?
 
Would that work for having that flare pattern in the background of the image that was posted fade out? Certainly it works for color, but will it work for the other?

I believe if you did a radial gradient overlay on the flare background (from transparent TO a solid blue) you could get that effect.
 
How did you do the background brushstrokes on OMG?
Various erasing, some brushes, and making some shapes.

Did you use a reference photo? I love such art...
In all honestly, that girl was from a photo posted in this thread. Someone made it (I guess) and I liked it. So I took it and made come designs.
 
Here are a few of my images where Photoshop was used. Of course there were more apps then just Photoshop, but I never use Photoshop exclusively. These are just the ones where PS played a large role.

-edited for grammar

Love a second one. Which tools did you use in Photoshop? I'd love to do some-thing similar :)
 
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