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Technique 19: Going Transparent with Opacity and Fill
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Lowering Opacity and Fill
Blending layers together
Have you ever seen an advertisement where a ghost appears to hover in the background behind an unsuspecting person? Or, how about an animated Web graphic that appears to fade in and fade out? Both of these effects can be created in Photoshop by using opacity settings to make the image or type semi-transparent. This technique focuses on the Opacity and Fill settings found on the Layers palette. I show you how to change these settings to blend layers together, making them semi-transparent or even transparent.You can also set the opacity of the colors that you apply to layers, including brush strokes (Technique 23), patterns (Technique 29), fills (Technique 21), and layer styles (Technique 20). For more details about setting opacity for each of these features, take a look at the techniques I’ve listed here. To find out how to make an animated Web graphic that fades in and out, take a look at Technique 60.
When talking with other Photoshop artists about transparency, you might find some discrepancies between meanings. First, everyone agrees that transparent is the opposite of opaque. But semi-opaque and semi-transparent can be used to describe the same effect (sort of the glass is half full or half empty depending how you look at things). Then there’s translucent. Translucent is a toughie because part of the word, lucent, indicates light, so you would imagine that the layer or image appears lit or has some kind of light source behind it. However, some folks use translucent to mean transparent and others use it to mean semi-transparent. I guess pictures can be worth a thousand words after all.
