photoshop cs problem

[percydaman]

so Im trying out the new photoshop cs before I buy and when I open a tga image with premultiplied alphas its not appearing right. Its showing the areas that the alpha shows shouldn't be there, speficially the background. Opened same image in photoshop 7 with now problems.

Anyone have any ideas?

[egz]

Photoshop 7 introduced the way of opening TGA files with transparency, but apparently that caused problems for lots of people, so they changed it back to the old way in the 7.0.1(?) patch.

Here's a PS action for CS that you can use to lift the image from the background. This action works with black mattes, you'll have to recreate it if you use white mattes or straight alphas. Just load the TGA, and run the action.

I have it assigned to CTRL+SHIFT+F12 so that I can apply it quickly whenever I load a TGA into PS.

http://vray.info/assets/egz/egzActions.atn

[percydaman]

thanks egz, Ill give it a shot.

[manray]

thanks egz!

one question, if we press CTRL+ a layer , we select that layer´s content, well, is there a key just to select the inverse?( only in one step) It would be fine to select the black part of the alfa channel.

thanks in advance and regards.

[egz]

not that I know of... I think doing a CTRL-SHIFT-I after the CTRL-layerclick is the fastest way to select the inverse of the layer content or the channel.