# Little Photoshop Help
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 19, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287 "2003-05-19T23:36:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Oblique](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Oblique)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/1 "2003-05-19T23:36:30Z")
Hello my loves :beam:
Anywho, need a little help here… if you goto: [http://www.teamnerve.com](http://www.teamnerve.com) in their banner at the top with the Counter-Strike guys youll see a grid that gets faded out at all sides… I have the grid but how do archieve making that fadeout effect? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/2 "2003-05-19T23:40:43Z")
the easiest way i know to do is grab the eraser tool and use a really big size of the soft brush and then just erase around it… but its hard to explain how i do it… the easier way would be grab the rectangular marquee tool and select the grid area with it, then go selection\>\>feather then enter how big you want to feather it. After that just hit CTRL SHIFT I to invert your selection and hit delete a time or two.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/3 "2003-05-20T00:37:16Z")
Ahh, thanks a lot :]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/4 "2003-05-20T00:41:15Z")
no problem, did it work out alright?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/5 "2003-05-20T01:03:22Z")
you could use a layer mask
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/6 "2003-05-20T04:25:56Z")
the best way to do that would be to make a mask layer then use a radial gradient…set to black and white.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/7 "2003-05-20T10:58:38Z")
I’ve never used layer mask
Are they really that much easier? I seem to pull off everything i need with just selections and brushes…
If you guys use them… are they really that helpful?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/8 "2003-05-20T13:15:13Z")
I use them all the time and they are very easy and helpful
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/9 "2003-05-20T13:33:46Z")
one of the great things about layer masks is that you can edit them once you’ve created them. Not only does this mean that if you make a mistake you can change it, but also if you decide to change the design or placement of stuff, you can just edit your mask
they’re much better than just erasing stuff IMO 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/10 "2003-05-20T18:47:55Z")
used a radial b&w gradient on the Layer\>Add Layer Mask named ‘grid’
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-photoshop-help/21287/11 "2003-05-20T18:58:33Z")
cool… ill have to try that out