Fading edge of one picture into another

[Todd S.]

Hello,

I have been searching far and wide to figure out how to fade one picture into another. I have 2 side by side photos that I want to use to make a banner feature image. I would like to fade the edge of one picture into the other and eliminate the hard edge. I haven't had any luck finding a video tutorial on this for affinity photo.

Thanks

[v_kyr]

You can simply do the same as is shown here for PSE with APh ...

• How to Make One Layer Fade Into Another From One Side of the Image to...

[Todd S.]

I try to do something simlar but the gradient application on the selected picture turns it to grayscale and removes all the color

[v_kyr]

13 minutes ago, Option Whisperer said:

I try to do something simlar but the gradient application on the selected picture turns it to grayscale and removes all the color

Then retry with applied transparency settings (much less than 100%, maybe 15% or so, play around with that) for the choosen color of the gradient.

[Todd S.]

Thank you. I finally figured it out. I had to use a shape over the top of the photo then apply the gradient to the area on the shape I want to fade on the photo. Then go to zero opacity on the side I want the fade. Then drag the box into the photo layer. Presto, faded edge. attached Has to do with Myanmar

[Lagoon]

Hi Option Whisperer. I am new to Affinity Photo. Do you mind helping me out on how you were able to achieve this? I got stuck in 
Drag the box into the photo layer. Thank you!

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Lagoon

I’m not sure what Option Whisperer did but I’ve attached a video showing how you can do this simply with a Mask Layer in any Affinity application. The start point is just an opened image with a placed image on top of it.

Note: Once you step editing the gradient it will become ‘baked’ into the mask so, it you want to change it later, you will need to re-draw it but that shouldn’t take much time.

There are various other ways to do this, and probably get a better result, but this is pretty quick.

[Todd S.]

I actually made a short video using the same image on how to do this.