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Sorry for what’s probably a basic question:
I have a grayscale image that’s a pretty consistent 85-90% black towards the edges. I want to print it on a full page in a book, but I can’t use a bleed, so I want to fade the edges to white. I can only alter the outside 1/4".
I figured out how to select a "frame" of color on the outside (select the inside and Select > Inverse), but my attempts at using a gradient fill on this frame have not been working too well. A radial gradient fill (started from the center of the image) is too light by the time it gets to the edge of the frame, and because the frame is rectangular, it’s not consistent. Linear gradient only seems to affect one edge of the frame at a time.
Maybe I’m fishing up the wrong creek? What’s the best way to fade my 1/4" wide frame from almost black to complete white, inside to outside?
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Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com
I have a grayscale image that’s a pretty consistent 85-90% black towards the edges. I want to print it on a full page in a book, but I can’t use a bleed, so I want to fade the edges to white. I can only alter the outside 1/4".
I figured out how to select a "frame" of color on the outside (select the inside and Select > Inverse), but my attempts at using a gradient fill on this frame have not been working too well. A radial gradient fill (started from the center of the image) is too light by the time it gets to the edge of the frame, and because the frame is rectangular, it’s not consistent. Linear gradient only seems to affect one edge of the frame at a time.
Maybe I’m fishing up the wrong creek? What’s the best way to fade my 1/4" wide frame from almost black to complete white, inside to outside?
—
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com
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