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It the second part of this Adobe Photoshop video tutorial series, Richard Harrington continues to show how to design lower third graphics. Lower thirds are used in displaying information in your video projects, shows, or movies. You will also learn many design tips and tricks to increase your Photoshop productivity for video creation.
Simply delete the old alpha channel
Then make a new one with the Alpha Channel action in PS
Making Lower Thirds Part 2
by Stephen Lee on Apr 9, 2009
I would add the text alpha to the original alpha channel (Alpha1) by activating the alpha channel for the text layer in Layers and proceed to the Channels Panel and fill the selection in white. Photoshop should only use the Channel marked Alpha1 as the alpha channel for the image. It's odd that another channel is being generated unless you are working in quick mask mode. Unfortunately, I'm not sitting in front of PS to test. Try this and see if it doesn't help. Cheers, Stephen
Making Lower Thirds Part 2
by Dan Quintero on Apr 7, 2009
How would I update or change the lower thirds text? When I do it, another alpha channel is made and appears in FCP.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Making Lower Thirds Part 2 - Photoshop for Video
by Stephen Lee on Jan 22, 2009
This is great except if you apply the alpha channel you made to the current image, which already has a gradation, it will lighten the opacity further. The alpha channel should be added to a fully opaque image.
