Photoshop gurus...

[BamaGirl]

How do I fade an image? This one to be specific. I want it washed out looking.

[NV Whino]

1. There are two kinds of "fading"

One is to desaturate the color--edging toward black and white. Go to menu to layers and add an adjustment layer for hue and saturation. You can play with it until you get it right and then merge layers or throw adjustment layer away if you don't like it. The advantage of the adjustment layer is that your original image is not changed until you merge layers.

The other "fading" is simply to lighten the image or "ghost" it back. You can do that by unlocking the layer and naming it. (Default name is layer 0.) That will activate the opacity tool right above the layer pallete. You can slide the back and forth until you get the right opacity. This retains all the color but makes the photo lighter.

[BamaGirl]

2. Thx NVW! nt

[DS1]

3. Create a new layer over the background, fill it with pure white

then lower the opacity of that layer to your liking - you now have 100 variations to choose from

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Or blue, red, green

all of which have their particular advantages.

[bvar22]

5. A couple of quick examples:

original



This one was done as suggested above by DS1. A new layer was added, filled with white,
and then the transparency was lowered to about 30%.




This was the same technique. A new layer (same picture) was added,
and then desaturated to black and white. The transparency was lowered to about 50%.

Working in layers offers infinite possibilities.
I use CorelDraw12, but the technique is the same.