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tbgriswold Posted - 07/07/2010 : 15:55:54
Is there a image format that can be loaded into Foto3d that will recognize the Alpha/transparency as the area to be masked? I have tried TIF, and PNG without luck. I have tried setting the transparency to fill with bright blue in Photoshop and still no luck getting the Automask to recognize it as the area to mask.

Any suggestions?

Britt
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colorjaws Posted - 01/08/2013 : 11:11:10
Because I lost a lot of time to find the solution be carfull:

The TIFF has to be in 8bits!

it's not mentioned in the documentation

colorjaws
tbgriswold Posted - 07/09/2010 : 16:38:54
Thank you very much Adam. I guess I should RTFM.

Britt
adam_creative Posted - 07/09/2010 : 14:42:57
Yes you can do this - check the user guide, start of section "9.5. Editing Masks with an External Application".

You need to make sure your image has 4 channels R,G,B,A. So you need to "select from transparency" and save the selection to a new "alpha" channel in Photoshop. Note that an alpha value of 255 indicates object and 0 indicates backdrop.

You can also export the masks from Foto3D as TIFF format and load into Photoshop to see what Foto3D expects.

Hope that helps,

Adam


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Originally posted by tbgriswold

Is there a image format that can be loaded into Foto3d that will recognize the Alpha/transparency as the area to be masked? I have tried TIF, and PNG without luck. I have tried setting the transparency to fill with bright blue in Photoshop and still no luck getting the Automask to recognize it as the area to mask.

Any suggestions?

Britt



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