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I would assume you get to animation by going PS>Windows>Animation

Okay, I feel completely lame having to ask this, because I think I might've figured it once before on my own, but since I don't know what I actually did to get things this way, I don't know how to fix it.

For some reason, images that I'm opening in PS Elements 7 are showing size in inches rather than pixels. When I resize, it tries to make me resize by inches, which I don't want to do. How do I change it back to pixels?

Second question...when I create a new Blank File, the first layer used to always come up as a transparent layer. Now it's coming up as a white layer. How do I fix that?

Okay, those are my two questions. I do have pics if anybody would like to see them, but thought they might take up too much space and might not be needed. The worst part is that I feel like I should know this already, but like I said, I'm not sure what happened between the last time I used it, just yesterday, and this afternoon.

could you show me pics? cuz i dont have elements

I had the problem with the layer recently too. When opening a new file you need to change backgroundsettings to transparent instead of white. Here's what I mean. (sry it's german...)

@cabbit_girl - Here's the first part I was talking about:




I can figure out how to get it to show me (in the first pic) pixels instead of inches. But I can't figure out why, when I'm trying to resize, it won't let me resize by pixels.

@dirrrty - Thank you!

Will it let you click the arrow by inches and change to pixels?

Hmmm....ooookay. Maybe that did it? I clicked on the Resample Image at the bottom, let it stay at bicubic, and then it let me change the pixels instead of the inches. I wonder if that's the right fix? Or just a temporary one?

@cabbit - No, actually. It gave me options like cm and picas but not pixels.

okay you have to click the resample option, underneath constrain proportions. that should allow you to use pixels then

Question: how do you do a gradual fade?

I'm asking this primarily for profile purposes. I can make a wallpaper & use transparencies, but I can't figure out how to manage a gradual fade into a solid background color. Is it just a matter of using multiple layers and decreasing transparency very gradually, or is there a tool that will help to fade a section without making it a startling difference?

I use PS Elements, but if I know what I'm looking for, I can probably locate it. I just don't like having that sudden cut off line between the 'wallpaper' image and a solid color for the background.

Failing that, I'd want the background to match the whole way down, but that doesn't seem to work very well, probably because of the transparencies.