Fading in an image

[schzam]

Evening

New to Paintshop so still learning the ropes.....

I am trying to fade the chequered flooring in this image, but I dont know how.

I want about 95% fading at the top gradually moving down to no fading.

What is the best was to get this effect ?

Cheers in advance

[LeviFiction]

I don't know about "best" but a layer mask with a gradient on it would do the job.

The floor would have to be on its own layer. Well, it wouldn't have to be, but that would be the easiest. Select the layer in the layers palette.

Go to Layers -> New Mask Layer -> Show all.

There will be no change to your image, but on the layers palette the floor layer will now be part of a group layer with a mask on top of it.

Select the mask layer.

Next we want to grab a gradient from the Materials palette. There is a simple black to white gradient already available to you if you want to use it. You'll want to make sure the black starts at the top of the gradient. And white at the bottom. Black on a mask hides everything, white shows everything. So this will give you the transparent to opaque result that you want.

Grab the paint bucket tool, also called the Fill tool, and then fill the mask layer with this gradient. It should immediately give you some good results.

If, however, the floor is not on its own layer you're going to want to select the floor as best you can before you create the mask.

Then when you create the mask you'll go Layers -> New Mask Layer -> Hide Selection.

This will hide the floor until you apply the gradient. Also make sure to keep the selection in place otherwise the fill tool might not work quite right for the effect.

THis doesn't help does it?

[Jean-Luc]

You could also do the following (less sophisticated than LeviFiction's system).

- Make a selection of the checkered area
- Transform the selection as layer
- Fill the selection with white
- Take the Eraser tool, Shape Square, Size what is needed (for the screen capture attached I selected 100), Hardness zero, Opacity 13
- Erase the bottom of the selection