forry

Hello everyone. I'm in need of some help. I'm attempting to make a semi-transparent .tga file, but have been unsuccessful so far. I know this is possible because I have seen it done in the past. I'm using Photoshop 6 and have been successful at making .png files semi-transparent. I was hoping someone who knows more about Photoshop then I do could explain how to do this. Thanks in advance for any help!

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Taleisin

well if you are making a background, the way I made mine Translucent is I put the eraser on 50% strenght and ran it over the whole window and saved it... seemed to work for me

Fozzik

Go to your layers pallet and hit the tab at the top for "channels". Click on the button at the bottom for "create new channel". the new channel will be called the Alpha channel. If you want your whole graphic file to be 50% transperant... get the paint bucket, select white as your color, turn the transperancy down to 50% and fill the alpha layer. It will look grey. The way the alpha layer works is that white areas are completely opaque, black areas are completely transperant, and all shades of grey are some level of transperant in between. The darker the grey = the more transperant.

When you save it as a .tga, make sure that the box for "alpha channels" is checked.

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Soes

If you are using Photoshop 7.0, make sure you download this Targa Patch. Also make sure you save the Targa as 32-bit.

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