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Summary: Setting the opacity for objects and layers in Photoshop can make a selection partially transparent. Learn to adjust opacity in Photoshop CS3 in this free Photoshop tutorial video.
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"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated, and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, so we're going to move on with our little tape tutorial thing here, and I'm going to actually drop the opacity on the tape. So, you've got to make sure that this tape layer is selected, and you want to come over here down to opacity, as you guys can see. I might be zooming in and out a little too fast for you, so let me zoom in slowly; opacity, and zoom out, and you want to drop the opacity roughly to like sixty seven percent, and that looks pretty good. As you can see over here, the tape is starting to actually look like tape. So, what you want to do now is actually you can either stick with this, or you can keep going, and make it look even better. But what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to keep going. Some people would actually just stop here. I'm not going to stop here. I'm actually going to just move on, and show you what else to do with this."
eHow Article: Opacity in Photoshop CS3 Tutorial