Photoshop Question

Looking for a bit of help here. Is it possible to make a gradient feather
selection in Photoshop? I may not be describing it correctly, but what I am
trying to do is select the entire image and then feather the selection from
top to bottom so that I have all the pixels at the top selected down to 0
pixels at the bottom selected in a smooth gradient. I'll then paste the
selection as a layer in another image.

Eric Miller
www.dyesscreek.com

"Eric Miller" wrote in message
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Looking for a bit of help here. Is it possible to make a gradient feather
selection in Photoshop? I may not be describing it correctly, but what I
am
trying to do is select the entire image and then feather the selection
from
top to bottom so that I have all the pixels at the top selected down to 0
pixels at the bottom selected in a smooth gradient. I'll then paste the
selection as a layer in another image.

Eric Miller
www.dyesscreek.com

I managed to do it once!
Before then and ever since, I use Corel's photo paint for that one
operation. It is so simple using paint, I can't help but wonder why Adobe
haven't picked up on it. IMO it is a bad oversite on Adobe's part to make
the process so complicated to achieve.

Douglas



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Eric Miller wrote:
Looking for a bit of help here. Is it possible to make a gradient feather
selection in Photoshop? I may not be describing it correctly, but what I am
trying to do is select the entire image and then feather the selection from
top to bottom so that I have all the pixels at the top selected down to 0
pixels at the bottom selected in a smooth gradient. I'll then paste the
selection as a layer in another image.

Eric Miller
www.dyesscreek.com

Technique using layer mask to create a gradient blend is described he
http://www.fredmiranda.com/article_2/index.html
There also a page here describing the same technique using the Gimp
http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/NDFilter/
Unless you're trying to do the "Digital ND filter" effect, then you'll
need to adapt what you need to use from the techniques explained on
those pages.

Eric Miller wrote:

Looking for a bit of help here. Is it possible to make a gradient
feather selection in Photoshop? I may not be describing it
correctly, but what I am trying to do is select the entire image and
then feather the selection from top to bottom so that I have all the
pixels at the top selected down to 0 pixels at the bottom selected
in a smooth gradient. I'll then paste the selection as a layer in
another image.

It's trivially easy in Photoshop: go into quick mask mode, select the
gradient tool, draw a gradient, leave quick mask mode.

Andrew.

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:54:29 -0000, Andrew Haley
wrote:

Eric Miller wrote:

Looking for a bit of help here. Is it possible to make a gradient
feather selection in Photoshop? I may not be describing it
correctly, but what I am trying to do is select the entire image and
then feather the selection from top to bottom so that I have all the
pixels at the top selected down to 0 pixels at the bottom selected
in a smooth gradient. I'll then paste the selection as a layer in
another image.

It's trivially easy in Photoshop: go into quick mask mode, select the
gradient tool, draw a gradient, leave quick mask mode.

I pointed this out in another NG several days ago. Eric
posted the same message to multiple groups rather than
cross-posting so the answers are scattered in different
threads. He also appears to be completely ignoring the
people who've taken the trouble to help him.

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John Bean