any photoshop experts out there?

[tracymort]

i'm designing my wedding invites and need to work out how to do something. you know when there's a picture and it's made kind of paler, as if say some voile or tracing paper had been put over it. Well i need to make a picture of a rose do that so i can write the details of my wedding over the top! i'm sure it can be done but i just can't work out how! Anyone able to help?

[wildwood]

Not an expert, but try this. Open the image. On the right there should be a small window named 'Layers'. If not, go to the view tab and click layers. Also go to the image' tab and ensure the RBG is ticked. In the little layer window, highlight the layer that you wish to make paler and adjust the opacity (there is a tiny adjustment window for this at the top right of the layers window). If the image that you have opened is not a PSD image - such as a jpg, gif or bmp - the image may have a little lock on it in the layer window, right-click it and make a duplicate layer, you can then delete the locked layer or click on the little eye to make it invisible. When finished, click the "T" on the toolbar on the left and you can write over the image to your heart's content. When finished, save as jpg or whatever and opened the image in an ordinary viewer to ensure the it has the right opacity before closing Photoshop. Enjoy.

[honkytonkman]

One way to lighten the whole image to make it paler is to go to Image>Adjustments>Brightness and increase the brightness, or a better way is to go to Image

02:20 Sun 11th Jul 2004

[honkytonkman]

Hmm it cut off my message.. Method 2 was "Go to ImageLevels and move the middle slider (a triangle) to the left.

[tracymort]

thank you both. off to play about!

[Matheous-2]

Opacity is the way to go.....Especially if you are adding text to the image which stands out that bit more. Don't be afraid to take opacity down quite far.