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Old 12-22-2009, 03:30 PM   #2
valaury3169
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Ok, I have all but given up trying to figure out what was going on that caused me to not be able to save the alpha channel before. I can't seem to get that specifc sequence to happen again. However, I do still have a question about Photoshop that I hope someone can answer.

I have .psd files for all of my textures that have layers for all of the individual pieces within a texture. If I open the .psd directly, no matter what combination I use to save it as a .tga, it drops the alpha channel. As a matter of fact, in the Save As dialog, it says "must be saved as a copy.." and the option for Alpha Layers is greyed out. Flattening the image first doesn't help.

What I have to do is save as .tga, select the name and save. Then I open the newly saved .tga in PS, add the alpha channel back, go to the .psd file, copy the alpha layer, then paste it in the newly added alpha channel in the recently opened .tga file and v***a...I can save a proper .tga.

There has to be a better way of doing this. Where am I going wrong?

edit: Why did it censor the "o-i-l" in "v-o-i-l-a"? That is wierd...
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