{"id":22,"date":"2009-10-15T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-05-03T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T12:50:07","slug":"adobe-photoshop-alpha-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/adobe-photoshop-alpha-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Photoshop &#8211; Alpha Channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha channels are invaluable tools at times; there is nothing that can replicate their power.&nbsp; So knowing how to create them is something that is very important.<\/p>\n<p>A coworker and I found an interesting &#8220;nuance&#8221; to creating them today.&nbsp; Typically, I&#8217;ll make a selection of the layer I want the alpha channel of, add other layers that I want to use as well, and then save the selection as a new channel and I&#8217;ve got my alpha.&nbsp; It&#8217;s worked for me multiple times in the past.<\/p>\n<p>But today we couldn&#8217;t get the correct levels of opacity for certain layers in CS3 (and replicated in CS2).&nbsp; Upon further investigation, the alpha channel wasn&#8217;t rendering out correctly for adjusted layer opacity or blending modes.<\/p>\n<p>After some playing around, we did find a solution to this though.&nbsp; However, this will only work in CS3 and beyond.&nbsp; Take the layers you want to create the alpha channel out of and make them into a smart group.&nbsp; You can then use the smart group to create your selection and save the alpha channel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha channels are invaluable tools at times; there is nothing that can replicate their power.&nbsp; So knowing how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photoshop","category-development-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4BbcR-m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}