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From: "Paul Davies" <capitol!davies@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: painting on layers
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> >Does it allow you to work on transparent layers?
>
> I don't know what you mean by this. You can use the alpha channel whenever
> you want for all purposes, even composing and things like "rub thru" etc.
> Is that what you mean?
In addition to allowing the user to create and save as many as 16 seperate alpha
channels per file, Photoshop 3 also allows you to paint on seperate transparent
RGB layers. It's like painting on glass.
Let's say you're painting a scene. You can create your background on one layer,
your middle elements on a second layer and your foreground elements on a third
layer. You can then arrange and re-arrange elements on a layer without effecting
the elements on the other layers.
I use it for creating texture maps for my LW models. I was working on a face and
needed to line up the features of the color map with the features of my object.
I painted each facial feature on a seperate layer with the skin as a background
on the bottom layer. I saved a "flattened" or composited version of the image as
an IFF and loaded it in LW to do a test render. Since all of the elements were
on seperate layers I was able to adjust them without having to repaint regions.
That's what I mean by layers. If Photogenic does this, cool. If not I seriously
doubt that it will be a strong contender for my affections and would advise
people to do a bit more homework before doing product comparisons. :+)
Sorry if I strayed too far from the LW forum but I thought all of you should
know what the buzz is about.
paul d.
Paul Davies
Artist/Animator
CapDisc Bethesda, MD.
davies@capitol.com or uunet!capitol!davies