Photoshop CS2 and transparent backgrounds

[radioVOY]

Im a user of Photoshop V7 since it was launched, but now i saw some nice features in their CS2 release and I'll like to try it, but there is an issue:

 

When you save a targa *.TGA with a transparent layer Pshop 7 reads the transparency as an alpha chanel, so i use this feature a lot to import texts to my videos on After Efects, text that you can save with a shadow drop that look smooth and very good on videos and without dealing with mask layers. But with Pshop CS when you save a targa with a transparent background and you impot it to another program, CS do to the transparency the same as you was saving a JPEG: you have a text but with a withe background, I dont know if is an option that you can disable, i need my alpha chanel without masking.

 

So if anyone knows how to disable this feature in Photoshop CS and i can make to Photoshop to reads transparent backgrounds as an alpha chanel in TGA's please share.

 

Thanks in advance for your replies.

[BrianKitts]

select your layer transparency (select-> load selection-> layer X transparency)

 

then go into your channels panel, add a new channel the first one it creates is by defualt the alpha channel.

 

Use the fill tool to fill the channel with the appropriate white/black and then save the image as a targa (use the selection box for save alpha)... it should work as it did before for you.

[radioVOY]

Thats the issue, with Ph7 to have a alpha channelk in targa you just had to set your bacground as transparent and everything but the upper layers would be transparent.

[gfa2]

have you tried different file formats that support transparency? like .png?

[radioVOY]

yes the same result