How to Fade an Image in Photoshop CS5. ... Fading lowers the opacity of the layer, ... Click and hold your cursor over the Paint Bucket tool on the toolbar and select the "Gradient" tool.

Pixelmator, the feature-packed contender to everything from Photoshop to MS Paint, has received a minor update to 1.2.2 with a major new feature: live gradients. As you can see in the video above ...