[Scott Gerst]

Yes-
but regardless- I have finally learne din Photoshop you must only select out alpha-
then double click and set to masked areas- and color 0% transparency in Photoshop-

this seems to work- so I will export as Photoshop with BG st to 0 in Motion- then select alpha and work in PS- and then I am able to do what I want to do.

Thanks so much- your help sent me int he right direction and got me going on this.

Cheers,
Scott

[Scott Gerst]

Thanks Noah-

I think most of my problem was in Photoshop-

I am now able to export a TIFF or PNG with alpha intact as a screen shot-
then I layer it in photoshop with proper blending and a mask to get the effect I want-

it isn’t exact, but with color dodge, for example, it makes very little effect, if any, on the image I am merging into (I am guessing becasue the alpha channel is transparent- although, why the other blending modes do effect the image I am merging into is beyond me).

Thanks again-
if anyone has any (off topic) insight into Photoshop with Motion and preserving alpha channels, feel free to pipe in.

Scott