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Photoshop Inverting my Alpha Channels!
For some strange reason, unknown to me, Photoshop has started creating my alpha channels inverted. I can’t figure out why this changed all of a sudden, and I can’t seem to find any settings in preferences that would even begin to address why it’s doing this.
Has anyone else ever seen this? It’s getting really annoying to have to create an alpha channel then remember to immediately invert it. There are going to be some screwed up looking graphics going on air, soon! I know I’m going to forget to invert the channel sooner or later!
…help!
Mark
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4 Replies
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Can you tell us the exact steps you are using?
Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
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Usually I’ll merge all of the layers and command click the layer thumbnail to get my selection, then click the ‘Save Selection as Alpha Channel’ button in the channels window. Same thing I’ve always done, except now it’s saving the alphas backwards!
molson in Philly
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Before you click on save selection to channel, double-click the “Edit in quick mask mode” button on the tools palette – it should pop up with the Quick Mask Options window. If you have “Color Indicates:” set to “Masked Areas” then the selected stuff will become WHITE and the unselected stuff BLACK. You guessed it, if you switch to “Selected Areas” the opposite happens. Hope this helps. 🙂
-Jonathan
Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293 -
Hot damn, that fixed it. Thanks!
molson in Philly
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