Sunday, October 30, 2011

Blanket fade examples

In my last post I demonstrated my technique for blanket fade.  I hope you liked it.  (If you haven't read it, please do so, or this post won't make much sense!)

Here, I'll show you two more examples using the same method.

Many thanks to Amanda Miley for this image:

Blanket fade tutorial

By popular demand, I finally got around to writing this tute.  Let's take a look at what we're aiming to achieve:


It's the classic blanket-blurring-off-into-the-distance.  In most cases, it's really easy to do, as I'm about to demonstrate.

Before I start, I must express my gratitude to Amy Cope Photography for the use of this gorgeous image. Thanks Amy!  Also, I've recorded this tutorial in Photoshop Elements 9.  I never pass up an opportunity to show Elements users how seriously their software ROCKS.  CS5-CSschmive, I say ;)

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