Reverse feather

Calling all Xtreme Xperts......

What is the best (quickest) way to make a reverse feather?

I can make one, a very crude one, of a rectangle, but it's very crude. You can see all the defects. There must be a simpler method. For a circle, my method wouldn't work.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Rick

Hi Rick,

Take a look at this thread:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=39493

and this one:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=18808

Rick

You can also try a Blend. That's basically what a feather effect is.

Or a Contour.

Thanks Sledger and Gary. I appreciate your help here. I think we're on the right path, but not quite there yet....

The Blend works fine on a solid color for the interior color, but what I realy want to do is have the inner color transparent and I don't know how to do this.

It's probably very easy to do, but I don't know how.

Thanks for your patience.

Rick

Drop-shadow (glow) and clipview.

See 'ClipView' in the Help file ;)

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Thanks Sledger. I've got it.....

This is the effect I was trying to create. Sort of like a black semi-frame.

Thanks again.

Rick

Good'o Rick ;)

Another effect you might be interested in is a circular 'vignette' using the transparency tool.
Clone the photo, left click 'black' on the color line, then choose the transparency tool>>Elliptical.
Reverse the transparency by clicking the centre point then adjusting the trans' slider, then click the arrow point and adjust the trans' slider again.

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