Perfect Alpha Channels - 2

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CreativeCOW presents Adobe Photoshop Alpha Channels Part 2 -- Video Training

Richard Harrington
Washington, District of Columbia USA

©2007 Richard Harrington and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved.

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In the second part of this Adobe Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington continues to discuss common compositing problems that a person might face when using alpha channels in Photoshop. Some of the problems Richard addresses are the black fringe that can sometimes appear around a glow when an image has an alpha channel premultiplied with black, exporting a clean alpha channel for an NLE and using image calculations to chroma key an image from the contrasting background.

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