[GameDog]

I was wondering how you make words and pictures transparent in photoshop. And also maybe how to make words look like they have been stamped into the background your using?

Thanks,
photoshop newbie

[iREZ]

I don't fully understand the question. You'll get better results if you show us what you want. If you want to make something a bit more transparent you could always select the layer you want to make transparent and lower the opacity (which on top of the layers palate) but there are other options depending on what kind of outcome you want.

[th3ph17]

find some photoshop tutorials and work through them. There are dozens of ways to do the thing you seek.

[grayware]

Well, to answer your Q, there are all sorts of ways but the simplest is to have the item you want to adjust on its own layer, then just mess around with the Opacity on the Layers pallete to adjust it, or, when your highlighted tool is the Move tool, just hit any number 1-0 on your keyboard for 10% incremental shifts in opacity.

A quick and cheesy way to make thing appeared "stamped" is to go to Layers > Layer Style and apply a layer style (in this case a style of emboss) to the layer.