What is this called? and How do I do it?

[greenytime]

I am looking to do what they have done in this picture. There is some sort of shadow over the lower section of the picture and then there is some writing. I am sure it is simple to those in the know!

Thanks!

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Is this what you mean?
View attachment 11877
if so, just look at the

 

[Hoogle]

Just look at the............ lol
I would do the same as spruce except for instead of lowering the opacity I go to filter blur Gaussian blur and crank it up that way it causes a slight out of focus effect.

 

[greenytime]

Just look at the............ lol
I would do the same as spruce except for instead of lowering the opacity I go to filter blur Gaussian blur and crank it up that way it causes a slight out of focus effect.

Could you upload an example please? I would really appreciate it.

@ spruce - Thanks

 

[Hoogle]

an example

 

[greenytime]

hopefully this is going to be easy for my novice self. I'll try it tonight and post back results.

 

[Hoogle]

Oh I should say if you are using the gaussian blur method you need to make sure you still have the selection active (marching ants) and make sure it is on a new layer otherwise you will just blur out the whole image.

 

[sprucemagoo1]

I'm sure the .psd attached before I pushed post.

 

[greenytime]

you attached a file? - That would be a tremendous help - don't see it though...

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Here it is......View attachment 11879

 

[Hoogle]

here have mine while you are at it
View attachment homepage-b1.psd

You will see mine is built up of 3 layers but that is not needed just

 

[greenytime]

Thank you kind sir.

 

[sprucemagoo1]

You will see mine is built up of 3 layers but that is not needed just

Have I started a new craze, where people end their post half way through sayi

 

[Hoogle]

I have 4 windows open for this site and all over the place. delete the just at the end lol.

 

[ChrisHPZ]

You could do a simple shape with a low opacity (50%) for the fill color and position it where you want by using the Edit>Transform controls (Ctrl + T for PC, Cmd + T for MAC). You could also use the gradient overlay option in Layer Styles if you want, double click on the layer you want to alter to get this dialog box. See greenyTime, with Ps there's a million ways to do anything.