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Originally Posted by ger
If you've got any sugestions (or links to resources) feel free to lay 'em on me.
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Well, I guess for a suggestion, I'd recommend coloring everything that's gonna be 100% transparent some horrible color like hot pink and not bother with the alpha channel 'til you're done with the image.
When you're done, make the alpha channel all white (0%). Then use the magic wand, non-continuus, not anti-aliased, low tolerance (0-5) to select the hot pink, switch to the alpha layer and hit delete (assuming your delete brush is set to black, 100%).
Any time you change the image, it's probably fastest to just redo this alpha channel process rather than making sure you make all the changes to the alpha layer to match up.
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Originally Posted by ger
And I still say DDS displaying a color instead of the transparency hash when there isn't actually any color there—regardless of what the alpha channel has to say about it—is a bug  |
I see the wink, but you're just being stubborn. =P In DDS and TGA, there is no such thing as transparency in the RGB channel(s). There's a color at every pixel.
I know it's our personal taste butting heads, but I wish every format used an alpha channel rather than the imprecise mixed-mode style Photoshop's format uses, as well as what? PNG and some other oddball formats? Being able to specify alpha at an accurate value on a per-pixel basis is wonderful.
Quib