Web Page Design-feathering an image

Hi Pam,

>I am authoring my first "official" website and I want it to look =
professional - as it is for a non-profit organization.  Specifically, =
the women I am designing the site for really likes the look of =
air-brushed graphics.  Her thinking is for the logo and the navigation =
bar.  I do not know where to look for such effects.  Is there a =
particular graphics software program I should be looking at, or does =
FrontPage or Dreamweaver allow for such designing?  Any help would be =
greatly appreciated.

Being as this is for a non-profit you may be able to get PhotoshopLE 
as I did by buying a scanner that came with it at no extra cost. It 
doesn't have all the features of regular PhotoShop but it has served 
me well over many years. I also have Fireworks but I find it much 
harder to use so prefer Photoshop and especially for photos.

Here is how I feather an image:

Open image

highlight area you want feathered

Choose "select/feather" and choose about 8 pixels (you can adjust 
this later if it too wide or too narrow). You may not see a change 
until the next step.

Copy/paste this image onto another background so feathering will show 
up (light background for dark image, and visa-verse)

These instructions should work in any graphics program, but maybe 
with different terminology.

I made a collage using this technique which you can view here:
http://www.loriswebs.com/collages.html
enjoy.
Lori Eldridge
www.loriswebs.com

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