nisus Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Hi all, Does anyone knows where I can turn of the auto-masking when loading 32 bit tga's into photoshop? tnx a lot! rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Does anyone knows where I can turn of the auto-masking when loading 32 bit tga's into photoshop?I'm not sure what you are trying to do. But it matters a great deal which version of Photoshop you are using. Typically, a Targa file with an alpha channel will load in and just look like an image. You can go to channels and turn on the alpha, which will (by default) add a pink color to show the mask. Older versions of PS (5, 6) handled .tga files in a predictable way. But with 7.0, Adobe decided that no-one wanted to use .tga files (in other words they forgot about our industry) so they changed how they are handled. They had a DL-able patch to enable alpha handling. But after an outcry, they had to restore it to how it used to be, and for that you MUST DL the 7.01 update. Once that is in place, all will be good with 'tga files. But are you asking about clipping paths? They behave differently, and I don't use them much so am not sure off-hand how to turn off their display. I think the Lightscape people are masked with a clipping path. Or maybe that was the people in my fathers Entourage CD. Or did I miss the p[oint of the question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Slightly off subject but the ps7 change in tiff file compression really miffed me. Most of my work is doen in formZ, and formZ crashes when using a tif file compressed with LZW out of Photoshop 7. Worked fine up until and including version 6.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted April 28, 2003 Author Share Posted April 28, 2003 Hi Ernest, You hit target! I'll download the patch. I didn't notice the problem anymore but after a full reinstall of all machines, I surely miss the old way of tga-handling tnx! nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Most of my work is doen in formZ, and formZ crashes when using a tif file compressed with LZW out of Photoshop 7. Worked fine up until and including version 6.5. The simple solution is to not save .tif files with compression. I don't. Hard-drives are cheap. But the overall point remains--Adobe likes to re-do that which ain't broke. It's annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted April 28, 2003 Author Share Posted April 28, 2003 sad but true... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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