Re: Faded colours problem - URGENT

[joevick]

This is a newbie question:
Image :ww.theredskinsshop.com/logo.jpg

I am trying to create the yellow rectangle with that blurred effect at its ends similar to that found in the picture in the link I provided. I have tried layer masks and gradients... however I cannot get it right. Can you please help me with this please ? If you know some tutorial or some link which explains how to do such a faded effect it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Joevick

[mozartdminor]

I hate to say this, but did you try just getting a red background and creating a yellow box on top with a bit of Gaussian blur? It seems to get you pretty darn close:

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...Untitled-3.jpg

that is just two bucket fills and an 8 pt gaussian blur.

[joevick]

Thanks loads mozartdminor =)

[Suzianne]

Want to meet her lawyer?

[mozartdminor]

Who's lawyer? and why? There is nothing wrong with this, just someone asking a photoshop question. What they do with it, and what they use for source imagery is up to them...

[Clan_uBp]

cleaver trick around the "you can not use URLs in post"

Lol
I'm just doing it the hard way.

[Suzianne]

What if that source image was created by me, and the person asking for help is trying to recreate it to sell my exact website design with a little bit different name? Is it still okay then?

[mozartdminor]

No, it is no longer okay. But as far as I know, that may not be the case. Either way, there is no accountability on my part for helping someone with an effect. If on the other hand, someone came on here asking how to duplicate, or copy a complete work then I would be intentionally helping someone violate someone's intellectual property.

I will keep an eye on this user in the future though, and I'd also suggest that if you feel wronged in this case to report this post and explain the situation. All users who register on this forum agree to this:

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[Suzianne]

I originally posted a flaming, angry message, but later reconsidered it and revised the post. When I revised it, I probably left too little of what I was trying to say. I recognize that no one here has any way of knowing what another user may, or may not, do with any helpful information they glean from this forum. I was very angry initially, but now we are speaking with an attorney as well as the selling institution to find the best recourse for blatant copying of original art and website designs.

It appears that some "website designers" just blur out the words on a piece of art, and replace them with their own website names, in order to retain some of the detailed and meticulously created parts of the artwork. Which is fine and dandy when you get the art from a template company, or artwork website, or from another source of that type. But just taking it for your own, from another unwitting designer, is not nice, not creative, not ethical, and -- according to our attorney -- not at all legal. We are looking into the best ways of documenting and tracing the artwork.

Thanks for your reply. I did not intend to imply that any helpful response anyone gave in this instance, was not the perfectly polite thing to do on a forum such as this. And fyi... the effect was created with a simple feathered delete of one color layer over the other! I couldn't tell you how much I feathered it, or how many times I hit the delete key, I was just trying to like what I was doing. lol!