urgent help on fading / vignetting

[tissani]

Dear Forum readers
I have an important rush job on and am fumbling my way through Photoshop elements 5 for the first time. I need to fade photo images out at the top to nothing. PLEASE can some kind person tell me how to do this ? The help button on the software only refers to the paint buttons but i'm not getting anywhere. Your help is very much appreciated. kind regards.

[Karin Sue]

Here is two of many ways to do this:

With the marquee tool select the part of the image you want to see.
Set a feather on the selection--fairly large
Invert the selection Select>Invert
Make a new layer above the image layer
Fill the selection with white (for the photo to fade with white)

Or:
With the marquee tool select the part of the image you want to see.
Set a feather on the selection--fairly large
Invert the selection Select>Invert
Make a solid fill adjustment layer--white
Paint on the layer using a soft brush with black/white to adjust the fade

[tissani]

Hi Karin, sorry if you got this message twice am not quite sure how this Forum works but a big thank you so much for help - tried your suggestion and it works so massive thank you ! Very Best wishes, Elaine:)