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Endrick 02-11-2010 07:00 PM

TGA file question...
 
Ok I'm sure this is going to sound like a dumb question, but I'm modifying
some of the TGA files and that's the easy part.

The problem I have is this...

I've modified the chat box images and they look like I want them, but
the black area around the image is not coming through as transparent.



So what am I doing wrong here?

Wicked Mouse 02-11-2010 07:54 PM

For transparency you will need to use the Alpha layer. You can make an Apla layer by going to your channels panel (in Photoahop that is, you may have to figure it out yourself in a different program) and click on the "create new channel" button at the bottom of that panel. It's grey toned: white is 100% visible, black is 100% transparent and any grey in between is semi-transparent.

Endrick 02-11-2010 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wicked Mouse (Post 3872)
For transparency you will need to use the Alpha layer. You can make an Apla layer by going to your channels panel (in Photoahop that is, you may have to figure it out yourself in a different program) and click on the "create new channel" button at the bottom of that panel. It's grey toned: white is 100% visible, black is 100% transparent and any grey in between is semi-transparent.

Cool... got it...
and that explains a lot.

Thanks...

Mirarkitty 02-12-2010 03:52 AM

So Photoshop does support RGBA TGA files? I couldn't get it to work...

daimon 02-12-2010 05:06 AM

It does yes. At least the newer versions (I've been using PS since 6.0)

Endrick 02-13-2010 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mirarkitty (Post 3876)
So Photoshop does support RGBA TGA files? I couldn't get it to work...

yes... then you open an TGA file go into the channels tab.
you'll see the channels listed from top to bottom like this...

<--- This is what you want...

Mirarkitty 02-13-2010 07:53 AM

Aha, there it's hiding. Funny, it seems like there's like 3 different ways of handling the alpha channel in Photoshop... anyway, that's all I needed to make things work, Great!


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