photoshop CS5, help.

[jochem]

hey people.

since youtube is updating and the backgrounds are gonna be gone i have been making some more thumbnails. one of them being for my limbo series, but im stuck. i have been using photoshop for a while now and know the basics and a little more, but now i want to make the background and foreground fade into eachother a bit, and i just cant find a way to do that. do you know any way to get the job done?
here is a example of what i have right now.
i would like to do it myself, not some1 of the forum to do it for me since it will help me understand the programm better in the future

 

[TwinTails]

Have you tried playing with the transparencys on the layers?

 

[jochem]

Have you tried playing with the transparencys on the layers?

kinda, i have been going over it with various diffrend brushes with diffrend hardness's. but honestly i dont see a lot of diffrenses with the hardness when it comes to masking.

 

[TwinTails]

Which part of the image do you specifically want to fade into the background? The colour swirl?

 

[jochem]

Which part of the image do you specifically want to fade into the background? The colour swirl?

yeah, like a soft edge. the color swirl fading into the gray a bit to get a softer edge and making it more in the style of the game

 

[TwinTails]

yeah, like a soft edge. the color swirl fading into the gray a bit to get a softer edge and making it more in the style of the game

Okay then what I would use is the ERASER tool, and turn the hardness down to 50-20.

 

[jochem]

Okay then what I would use is the ERASER tool, and turn the hardness down to 50-20%.

ill have a go with that

 

[unknown_userr433436365]

You mean to like feather the image? like smoothen the layers so the edge looks less sharp?

 

[jochem]

You mean to like feather the image? like smoothen the layers so the edge looks less sharp?

stuff like that yes. i also i cant find anything on the internet of moving specific sections of pictures to background and foreground, is this possible? i would assume it is, but cant find any options on it when i select a section.
and now ive also kinda figured out how to do the thing i was trying to. jazzy helped me out pretty good

 

[unknown_userr433436365]

I think I know what you mean, so here`s an example.
So here`s an image but it transmits /ends in to the background really sharply : http://gyazo.com/96685354604373c4ab8b7c75b318d6f5
After feathering it looks like this : http://gyazo.com/5198fe135dc80a8ea74ba0e5971bacf3

If that`s what you mean, the how to do it is :

1) Use the rectangular marque tool to select your image : http://gyazo.com/00f0f3c209e52d90c98678d222195203
2 ) Then press Ctrl + Shift + i (inverse keybind)
3) Then at the top where it says feather, change it from 0 to about 5-10 : http://gyazo.com/6899863a16dc2ea141d9b8b19b72c1cb
4) Then press the delete button 2-6 times

And that`s it