Using Preferable Gimp or Photoshop, Preferably Gimp.


Basically when you have a picture and you want to put a title over the picture. But you want the title to have teh title to have a black sort of 'cloud' under it so that it doesnt look like its directly over the picture.
I dont want to just place a black box under it.
Is there a way to create a fade effect?

And its not only for this it could be a picture of a person and at the top of the page you have it perfectly white and as you go down to their feet it gets darker and you have a gradual transition.