Photoshop 6 Tifs by Nitroced
This follows the sequence of images given by Pinhead in 'Making Transparent Tifs for Bryce'.
There are a few differences in the methods needed to do this in Photoshop 6.
Soooo.... Here I go!
1. Start Photoshop
2. File>Open (select an
image
3. Click on the lasso tool
(making sure that anti- aliase is deselected)
4. Select all around the
object
5. Select>
Inverse
6. Edit>Fill with
100% Black
7. Crop the
image (This is where I had my first problem ) I don't know
why but I could not crop the image while
it was
filled in with the 100% black. So I cropped the image before I did anything to it at all, and tried to get as close to the areas
that I wanted to work with.
8.
Select>All
9.
Edit>Copy
10. File>New (Making sure
it's the same size & selecting grayscale mode)
11. Edit-Paste the image into the new
grayscale image
12. Select the magic wand tool and
then select the black area surrounding the image
13. Select>Inverse
14. Edit>Fill with 100%
white
15. Select>Deselect
16. Layer> Flatten
Image
17. Go back to the original image
& make a new alpha channel
18 Go to untitled black &
white image, Edit>Copy (this is the second problem that I had, it
only showed Paste in Edit-
everything else was grayed out) so.. In ps 6 you have to go to
Select>All then go to Edit>Copy and then you can copy
and
paste the image into the original.
19. (third problem) You can't
just paste the black & white image (alpha mask) into the original in ps 6,
You have to select the
Alpha Channel by clicking on it in the layers pallet, and then you have to
go to:
EDIT>PASTE INTO, and it pastes the black & white alpha into the original
images new alpha channel . Also when you do
this and
click on RBG in the channels pallet, the background doesn't appear red in
PS 6, as it does in PS5. This
was
very
confusing also, and I started over countless times because I thought that I had
done something wrong. Apparently
the
red background doesn't show up in PS 6 for what ever reason.. ( I guess only
Adobe Knows why)
20. Then clean up the
edges
21. Click on the original
images "Background" In the Layers Pallet and then go to- File>Save OR
File>Save As (it doesn't
matter
in ps6 and save your file!) It Automatically includes the alpha and
the correct file extension!
I know
there were only minor differences in the way this was done for both PS 5 &
PS 6, but it could be confusing for others.
I hope
that this will help some other users also. Just goes to show ya what a little
research can do. ;0}
Sincerely,
Nitroced
Pinhead writes: You rock Nitroced, readers can see your Bryce images at 3DCommune of course.
Mucho thanks for taking the time to help! And hello holler from waaaay up North ; )