InDepth: Photoshop Effects
Continued from page 17.
Place the color image in your layout. Copy the gradient to the grayscale image and moved the 0%
image frame and choose Edit > Paste In Place to Opacity Stop to the right, so the image is mostly
position a duplicate directly on top of the first. With transparent (Figure 7). Figure 8 shows the color
the duplicate still selected, relink it to the grayscale image directly underneath the grayscale one.
version to preserve and match positioning, scaling, Note that you can drag the Gradient Tool
and fitting to the original. With the grayscale across gradient-feathered objects to change
image still selected, choose Object > Effects > how the effect is applied, just as it’s used to
Gradient Feather and turn on the Preview checkbox modify how gradient color fills are applied.
when the Effects dialog box opens (Figure 6).
You can think of a Gradient Feather as
something that works just like a Gradient Color,
Anne-Marie Concepción owns Seneca Design and is one of the
except you use levels of opacity instead of colors
industry’s best-known Adobe trainers and consultants. She’s a
for the Stops. In our example, we applied a Radial frequent speaker at industry events and a prolific writer for design
magazines. She is the co-developer of InDesignSecrets.com,
and she shares tips and insights in her free DesignGeek e-zine.
Figure 6: Bring up this dialog box by choosing Pariah S. Burke is the publisher of the Web sites Quark
Object > Effects > Gradient Feather. VS InDesign.com and Designorati and is a creative workflow
expert consultant and trainer
through WORKFLOW:Creative.
He also created the artwork
and effects for this article.
Figures 7 (top right) and 8
(bottom right): Slowly drag the
mostly transparent grayscale image
over the color image, ending with
the grayscale image directly on top
of the color version.
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