Hero section image fade.

Choose the linear gradient, top to bottom, with the end opacity at 0%. The image stays full at the top and fades out at the bottom, revealing the content area under it.

Usually the bottom 20 to 40%. That keeps the visual impact and hands off smoothly; adjust to where the content starts and how tall the hero is.

Transparent is more flexible, since it works over any CSS background. If the background is fixed, placing the image over that color gives the same result.

Yes. Fade left to right or right to left: one side stays visible for the image, the other fades for the text.

Make a separate asset with the direction the mobile layout needs, often bottom to top as content stacks, and swap it with srcset or a media query.

For an edge-to-edge hero, fade every edge a little, to 20 or 30% rather than 0%, for a soft boundary that keeps the impact.

No. The browser decodes the file, a canvas does the work and the result is built on your device; the page makes no request with your image. You can load it, go offline and keep working.

The edit is written as a PNG so nothing is lost: it keeps every pixel and the alpha channel exactly. Run the result through the WebP compressor to get a WebP back for the web, usually 25 to 35% smaller than the PNG.

No. The "Hero section image fade" tool is free and opens without a sign-in, an account or an install.

Nothing. The "Hero section image fade" tool holds your input in the page's memory, so closing or reloading the tab clears it, and it saves nothing in this browser.

Up to 100 MB per file, the limit the tool states under its drop area. A larger file is refused with a plain message instead of being decoded.

No, it takes one file at a time. If you drop or choose several, only the first is used; run the tool again for the next one.

The edit is written as a PNG because PNG stores every pixel exactly, with a full alpha channel, so the result can be edited again without a second round of loss.

No. The browser decodes the image and the tool writes a new file from its pixels, so camera EXIF, GPS position and text chunks in the original are not copied into the result. Keep the original file if you need them.

No. The result has the same width and height in pixels as the source.

Closest to the "Hero section image fade" tool: WebP opacity changer, Website background opacity, Hero image color effects, Image fade effect generator. Each opens on its own page, free and in the browser.

The "Hero section image fade" tool is one of 44 in its group. The group's page, /tools/webp, lists them all.

The tool is free. Its interface is built from shadcn.io's own components (Button, Input, Slider and the rest of the registry under /ui), which come in React, Vue, Svelte and Solid. Pro adds the blocks and templates for the product around it.