Image editing withing Elements 2

Hello
Can anyone help a novice out?? I want to use an image for a background as part of my website. What i want to do is have the main "graphic" to the right hand side of the screen (set as semi transparent) and then fade the image to white towards the left of the screen. I have tried messing around but cannot get a decent result.
Cheers
Dustin
England.

"Colin Walls" <[email protected]> wrote > You need a plain white Background layer. > Put your graphic on a layer above that. > Between the 2 add another image layer. > Hide your graphic for a moment and add a horizontal gradient [colour to > transparent] to the blank layer. Now make the graphic layer visible again. > Link the top 2 image layers [ALT/click on their boundary in the Layer > palette. > Use Save for Web to create a final JPEG when you're happy. Colin, I wonder how long it will be until someone posts a THIRD method... Byron

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