How to do shading?

[Saurav]

Would anyone please be able to tell me how to obtain these fading effects?

What I need is rounded fading like the one below (like the boy has rounded shading rather than on a straight line).

Would anyone please be able to tell me how to obtain these effects?

Many thanks.

[zax15uk]

It appears the image is just faded out to black, which would be a simple task for any graphic editor. I use Photoshop, but Corel PhotoPaint or GIMP would be options.

Zax.

[notexpert]

Hi Saurav,

I use Corel Paint Shop - it is very simple to make shadings with "soft brush" and
I think that this soft brush is also very common in most of the craphic and photo
softs. I attached few photos; other without shading, other one with - made it
under 1 minute ( if I can do it - other world can make it better ) !

[Saurav]

It appears the image is just faded out to black, which would be a simple task for any graphic editor. I use Photoshop, but Corel PhotoPaint or GIMP would be options.

Zax.

Hi,

Thanks but any tutorials on how to select like a rounded bit and fade the edges of that rounded selection?

Hi Saurav,

I use Corel Paint Shop - it is very simple to make shadings with "soft brush" and
I think that this soft brush is also very common in most of the craphic and photo
softs. I attached few photos; other without shading, other one with - made it
under 1 minute ( if I can do it - other world can make it better ) !

Thanks I will give that a go.

[zax15uk]

In Photoshop it's REALLY easy, use the rounded select tool and put a feather on it (like 50 or more pixels). Have black as the background color and delete the area... it will slowly fade out to black.

Zax.

[Saurav]

In Photoshop it's REALLY easy, use the rounded select tool and put a feather on it (like 50 or more pixels). Have black as the background color and delete the area... it will slowly fade out to black.

Zax.

That worked perfectly well! Thank you so much .