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Aaron Levy
Medicated Lately?
Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,147
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12-14-2004 23:31
I LOVE this program. It's like working with a real-life canvas with dozen of mediums at your disposal. Paint runs, smears, water splatters... it's great.
Anyway... it saves TGA files, but not with the alphas for some God-knows-why reason. The ONLY document that it says will save alpha channels is RIF.
Does anyone else use this program and if so, how do you go about getting an alpha texture from it into SL?
Thanks,
Aaron
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SuezanneC Baskerville
Forums Rock!
Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
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Painter is wonderful.
12-17-2004 13:38
I have Painter 8. You are right about painter, it truly rocks.
I don't use it enough to know the good answer to your question.
I just want to point out the obvious and not so good answer that you are bound to know already, namely, create your painting in Painter, then export it to a paint program that does make alpha channel creation, use, and exporting in tga format easy, Photoshop being one.
Corel maintains a newsgroup that might be able to better answer your question.
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Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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12-17-2004 21:35
Aaron,
I've only been playing with Painter for a short time, but from what I can tell it doesn't seem to be set up for transparent backgrounds. Because it is meant to simulate natural media, it seems to require that the final output have an opaque canvas behind it. This is kind of silly since there's nothing to stop someone in the real world form painting or drawing on transparent acetate, but it seems Painter does not appear to have a setting for this.
The only solution I've found is to save as PSD and then use Photoshop to delete the canvas layer.
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Kensuke Leviathan
Wandering fox
Join date: 11 Dec 2002
Posts: 127
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12-20-2004 13:29
Accually should you be able to try saving it as a PSD file should you have PSP(which I believe reads them)or better yet photoshop, from there you can export them to TGA with all the alpha map goodness you need.
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Ferran Brodsky
Better living through rum
Join date: 3 Feb 2004
Posts: 821
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12-20-2004 13:37
I actually use the corel suite for just about everything... Photoshop is only good these days if you have all the latest and greatest plug-in hoo-has. Unless Photoshop has completely trained you to be PS-dependant, then an intuitive program like Corel is the way to go.
If you have the whole Corel suite save it as a .cpt, then open it in photo paint... it will still have all of it's layers, then use the mask tools... save as .tga - enhanced... no need to even make an alpha, the mask tools in Corel are an alpha chanel. can probably just use the mask wand tool, a one click alpha for solid backgrounds.
With Corel, I'll take the pepsi challenge against Photoshop anyday.
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Oh yeah or as Chosen says, delete the canvas layer, can do that in photo paint too.
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