Photoshop Ghosting Borders

MeSha from LA, using photoshop 7 with Windows xp, writes in with:
[Quote:] I have a photo that I need ghosted 80% with a small border not ghosted. the border is part of the photo just still in full color. Help!!!

The technique MeSha has requested is technically called "screening back" or ghosting. Actually there are a number of ways to do this. One using an Adjustment Layer, another with a transparent white panel -- or simply via a selection directly in your image. All these work equally well. Here's how...

Photoshop Ghosting Borders

All the following can either be the entire layer, or a selection. Also remember your selection can be made with any of the Selection Tools, and can have any kind of edge from sharp to feathered or textured. Many like a slight feather. (Menu: Select > Feather) In this case we're

For this request, we'll use a slightly feathered selection.

Ghosted in place:
1. Make the selection. (We'll use the Rectangular Marquee)
2. Move the Layer Opacity slider to 80%. When flattened, the area will be ghosted.

White Panel Ghost
1. Create a new layer above the image to be ghosted.
2. Make the selection. (We'll use the Rectangular Marquee)
3. Menu: Select > Feather, radius (?) we'll use 8 pixels for a soft edge
4. Tap the letter "D" to return to default colors Black/White
(Windows) Ctrl / Backspace
(Mac OS) Cmd / Delete
5. Move the Layer Opacity slider to 80% and watch as the panel becomes ghosted.

Adjustment Layer Ghost

Adjustment layers are just about like any other layer except they have a built in layer mask. (If a path is active, the adjustment layer will actually be a vector mask!) Keep in mind that Adjustment layers effect all the other layers beneath, unless you make them a clipping group. (Which is another tutorial.)

1. Make the selection. (We'll use the Rectangular Marquee)
2. Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation
3. Use the "Lightness" slider to achieve the 80% ghost.

All three work well, some are better in some situations. We recommend you take a few moments and practice all three. Then you can decide which you like best.

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Comments

[Fred Showker]

See:

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/whiteout.html

This conversation should have moved to Photoshop 911 discussion forum.

[Fred Showker]

YES... that is indeed "Ghosting" ... you're speaking of a specific situation with a monitor or screen.

"Ghosting" in the graphic design field is:

Causing an image to be very light, and/or transparent so the background shows through.

A "Ghosted" image is one that has been made very light.

:-)

[Fabruccio]

This is *not* ghosting. A ghosting effect is what you get when you take a long shot and move, or sometimes could be an artefact of the lens: you have a double of the image, a little shifted from the original. We call it a ghost.

[noni]

This is the same type of project I am beginning and need help with this very same type of function...

"Help!! Im trying to take an object from a photo (say a spoon for example) and put it on a blank background. Im using this program for flyers and catalogs and I want just the object that Im featuring...not the background of the picture. I would be taking the object and transfering it onto a word doc. Thankyou!!!"

[amy]

Hi My name is Amy,
I have used clipping paths in photoshop many times without a hassle but I need to create more than one clipping path for export with an object that needs to be cut out but also has other areas of negative space not just the outline. How can I do this in photoshop.Please help.
Desperately yours
Amy

[joanna]

How do I put a shadow behind a photo (or other object) for print & web?

[sukhanya]

I want to remove shadow from one of my photos using adobe photoshop 6. Kindly let me know how to do it?
thanks
sukhanya

[Charlie]

u may want to use the pen tool of photoshop, trace out the image you'd want to extract from the picture. then, with the pen tool still on, right click and select make selection, (choose your desired options and hit on ok) and then witht the selection on the image, hit ctrl + c (copy) then transfer to a new canvas and paste it.

another way is by extract. (but im not sure how to use it still, but i know it also works with the selection on the desired image)

hope this helps.

[Leanna]

Help!! Im trying to take an object from a photo (say a spoon for example) and put it on a blank background. Im using this program for flyers and catalogs and I want just the object that Im featuring...not the background of the picture. I would be taking the object and transfering it onto a word doc. Thankyou!!!