How do you fade photos?

[Amy2004]

I really like the effect of fading out the edges of a photo, especially in collages, but I can't figure out how to do it.

Is there a tutorial for it somewhere?

Appreciate it.

Amy

[Flora]

Hi Amy,

you could try selecting and strongly feathering the parts you'd like to fade and decrease their Opacity ....

[FrannyMae]

Amy, I like using a layer mask...fill it with white and paint with black on the mask using a large soft brush on the edges you want to "disappear." You can use this technique with all the pictures in your collage if you want. Hope this helps!

[Amy2004]

Hmm... never thought of that.

Thanks, I will give it a try.

[Gary Richardson]

As an add on to FrannyMae's suggestion, if the fade in is not gradual enough, apply Gaussian Blur to the mask.