Quote Originally Posted by Croyles
Yes you can set it to 'visible to transparent'. I have the newest version of photoshop (Photoshop CS2) so the settings might be at a different spot, but if you select the gradient tool, at the top left there should be what looks like a colour window (its not.), select it and a drop down menu will appear with lots of different icons with different colours. If you then hover your mouse over, I think the second one, it should be the transparency one.
The transparency gradient tool shoudl work for the whole picture. Or am I not getting the picture here?