> > From: > Paul Sorenson > > Something like this? > > http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm > > Set foreground color to white > New blank layer > Make a selection around your subject on the blank layer > Invert the selection and set feather - I used 200 pixels > Fill the selection on the blank layer w/white > Deselect > Adjust opacity > Save as psd or flatten and save as jpg > > Use the select tool of your choice - I used the lasso. You may have > to try a couple selections and feather amounts to see what works best The other thing you can do is make this a whole new picture. Create the layer as described above and save the layer as a PSD file. Name it something like "oval-mask.psd". Then whenever you need it, just open it copy the layer and paste it as a layer into any portrait.
If you want to get fancy, you can have a "white-oval-mask", "50percent-grey-oval-mask", ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
