help on masking~

just want to know if you can make the mask kindda fade in or fade out so if you mask a picture with a circle.. you won' t see a perfect circle.. instead with a fade out side..

if you can't.. does anyone know how to do that effect??

please help.. thanx

shan

check out stickman's tutorial on the subject here:

http://www.the-stickman.com/tutorial...ientmask.shtml

For Flash? Photoshop? what