Transparency when saving to TGA

[browj2]

Below is a screen shot of PSP2020 showing the alpha channel turned on - you can see the dashed line in the main window around the transparent checkerboard part, and the interface for loading/saving an alpha channel in the box at the lower right.



Note also the 2020 interface. Compared to PSPX9, there's not a lot of difference, but 2020 has a few more top menu items; Enhance photo and Palettes were moved up from the toolbar area, User Interface was added as far as I can tell. There have been many changes since X9 and there are long lists of changes on the PSP forum.

There are also 2 other interface workspace views - Photography and Essentials. What you see above is Complete.

Photography: this is a touch-friendly workspace


Essentials:


While I'm at it and as a follow along to another thread about using an external bitmap program, I use PSP as my external bitmap editor for Xara. Upon exiting PSP after making changes and saving, the image in Xara is automatically updated.

[handrawn]

thanks again - I'm a bit of a junkie for this stuff - looks like I only saw the photography interface need to dig deeper if I get the chance...

I see the alpha mask [channel] dialog box - my query was whether you can access the red green blue channels.. in your screen shot [and the video] the program is set to layer not channel[s]

still I can look at that in due course now I know there is more to see - also youe are using the 'ultimate' version, not necessarily the one i saw...

[browj2]

Under Image, there is a selection to Split Channel and 3 choices: Split to RGB, Split to HSL, and Split to CMYK. Is this what you mean?
Splitting to RGB creates 3 tabs, one for each channel.

The Ultimate version is just PaintShop Pro + a bonus collection of software. There is nothing different in the program if you get Ultimate.

[handrawn]

ok thanks again - when I get a chance to look again, because it is not installed on my computer, ~I will check this out

the split does sound like what I was looking for...