{"id":733,"date":"2012-08-29T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2012-08-29T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:55:55","slug":"messy-edges-silhouetted-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/messy-edges-silhouetted-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Messy edges around silhouetted image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one goes out to all the web developers out there who can&#39;t quite justify hiring a designer for a given project. Every once in a while, I come a cross a tip like this that is perfect for guys like us, who just need the Photoshop basics to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>I often struggle with silhouetting images, to give them a transparent background. The edges come out unrefined and this is very noticeable when you place the new image on a colored background.<\/p>\n<p>So today, I happened to be messing around with the &quot;Blending Options&quot; in Photoshop, and wouldn&#39;t you know it, I discovered a real easy tip to make those jagged edges look a whole lot smoother!<\/p>\n<p>Ready for this? Just add an outer glow. Depending on the color of your background, adding an off-white outer glow at 75% opacity seems to take the emphasis off of the messy edge and on to the glow effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one goes out to all the web developers out there who can&#39;t quite justify hiring a designer for a given project. Every once in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}