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JULY 23, 2003 Gradient Masks in Adobe Photoshop
Drop in a background image, change the text and the text color, and you're still good to go. Here's an example. (Click the Play button to watch.) [an error occurred while processing this directive]Now, I need to note two limitations for this tutorial: If the image you're trying to mask is itself gray, you're going to run into problems using a grayscale gradient. So, in that case, you'd want to use a red (255,0,0), green (0,255,0) or blue (0,0,255) gradient mask. Then, i the Blending Options dialog, you would change the default "Blend if Gray" to "Blend if Red" (or green or blue, as appropriate). The other limitation is that the blending values you set on your gradient layer may not work will with all masked images. You will have to change the values depending on the colors in the image you're masking. Play around in the Blending Options dialog until you arrive at a value that looks good. And if you have any further questions, don't hesitate to visit me in the Adobe Photoshop forum here at DMN. Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Mac OS, Adobe InDesign, Adobe LiveMotion, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com. Prev 1 2 3 Related sites: • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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