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Mindy_Thomas
Dec 18, 2007
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How do I fade an entire picture? I selected it with the marque, clicked edit, fade but nothing happened.

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Donald_Reese
Dec 18, 2007
One way to do it would be to go to the layer drop down menu and select- layer from background. after you do that,go to the opacity slider in the layer palette and fade it to whatever you want.
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Phosphor
Dec 18, 2007
Before you do that, make sure the Background is turned into a Layer by double-clicking on it (or Alt double-clicking to avoid the naming dialog).

FYI: Edit>Fade is used not to fade a picture, but to back off from the effects of a filter or adjustment. For instance, try running Levels on an image and then go to Edit>Fade to knock back the effect by some percentage.
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Mindy_Thomas
Dec 19, 2007
When I did those steps I get a grey/white checkered background and the only way I got rid of it was to flatten the image.
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dave_milbut
Dec 19, 2007
the checkered background indicates transparency. when you save in a format that supports transparency (gif or png for example) you can then use that image on a web page (or page layout app, etc). the places where you see the checkerboard in photoshop will be see through (transparent) on the web page.
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Donald_Reese
Dec 19, 2007
You can set the background in your prefs to be the checkered,or not at all if you want it that way.

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