Fading a picture

[Cricket8025]

I have Photoshop 10 and am trying to fade a picture so that I can use it as a background in a photo book.  Nothing that I have tired works.  Can someone help me step by step?  thanks so much!

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[Moved to Photoshop forum]

[davescm]

Cricket8025  wrote

I have Photoshop 10 and am trying to fade a picture so that I can use it as a background in a photo book.  Nothing that I have tired works.  Can someone help me step by step?  thanks so much!

Do you mean Photoshop CS3 (which was Photoshop version 10.0) or Photoshop Elements 10?

Dave

[Derek Cross]

One simple way: open your image, go to the Layers panel (double click on the Layer in the layers panel if it's a Background layer to make it a normal layer), then use the Opacity slider to reduce the opacity, then Save As (make sure you give the file a different file name so you don't overwrite your original image). You can use the drop down Format menu to select the format, such a JPG.

[Cricket8025]

It is Photoshop Elements 10.  I did do what Derek Cross suggested but it puts some sort of a pattern on it.  I"m not sure why.  thanks for the advice.

[davescm]

Hi

I've moved your post to the Photoshop Elements forum where you are more likely to get responses applicable to your version of Photoshop

Dave

[Norman Sanders]

Perhaps you are picking up the transparency pattern. Place a layer below the image layer and fill with white. The pattern will disappear.

[Derek Cross]

That checker board effect is Element's?Photoshop's way of indicating transparency – when you save the image as a JPG is will disappear.

[hatstead]

I have Photoshop 10 and am trying to fade a picture so that I can use it as a background in a photo book. 

By "fade", do you mean that wish to create a vignette? If so, please advise.