Softness technique?

Hello, I’m dying to know how did the http://www.fantasy-interactive.com/ do
their section bacgrounds and footer tentacles…

     Every sectioin has a very soft transition from one color to another

, but it isn’t just plain gradient, it looks alot better. Then, behind each
object, they have a “horizon” type of effect ( the white thingy). I went nut
s trying to achve the same softness :slight_smile:

  .. and then come the lines in the footer, again ultrasoft. They havent

made the shapes just using pen tool and then aplying outer glow style… I s
uppose?

  Any hints or explanations on how the hell these guys pulled off these 

tricks are veeery welcome. Thank you! :slight_smile: