Achieving Transparency - 4
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A CreativeCOW Photoshop Video Tutorial
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Richard Harrington
Washington, District of Columbia USA
©2007 Richard Harrington and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved.
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In the fourth part of this Adobe Photoshop video tutorial series on achieving transparency, Richard Harrington takes a look at a few gotchas that occur at different times when creating alpha channels. One of these is when using layer styles on an image to create various effects such as the glow effect, the transparency information from the layer style does not extend into the alpha channel. In this tutorial you will learn the tips to work around these sort of problems.
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