Joan said:Did you use the eyedropper tool to set the color of your text layers? It's a handy thing to use and you know your color will be an exact match!
I was talking about the second, but i looked at what you said and figured some things out from it.
As for the eyedropper, i should have known that, but didnt even think about it. I just made custom color from color wheel.
And on the color fade to transparent, i used gradiant tool and set my own gradiant style and feathered outward from the center, but it took a little to much color from the main part of the picture and I am not happy with that. I am going to try to figure out how to feather in using the big tip like you said.
Thanks for the ideas and the help.
Al