Spray Transparency Tutorial

[strangefamous]

I'm going to show you my method of applying transparencys I don't know if everyone does it this way or not but it works for me.

 

 

Start off with your image that you want to have transparencys I'll use the GC thug logo. Open it up in photoshop and make sure it's on a transparent background.

 

It should look like this.

 

All the spots that are checkard is what we want to be transparent, if yours are still white click on the magic wand tool and click on the white and delete it till it resembles the image above.

 

Right click on the image under layers and go to duplicate image

 

 

A box will appear, click the drop down box and select new.

 

 

Now you'll have an identical image, make sure you have this one selected and go down to the layer box, and right click on the image and go to blending options.

 

 

In blending options menu click on color overlay so it checks the box, you want to apply an overlay of WHITE.

 

 

Hit ok and everything that you want to appear in game should be white.

 

Now make sure your background color is set to black,

 

Then click on Layer in the menu bar at the top and selecet "New layer from background".

 

now the image should look something like this

 

 

If so good, lol, push control A to select the entire thing, then control C to copy it, now return to your original image, and click on channels, click new layer

 

It will make a black box that says alpha channel.

 

 

and then control v to paste in what we just copied.

 

Should look like this

 

 

Just save it as a TGA file now and import it into CS.

 

I do it this way because this is how it must be done for animations, but for a still pic it works as well.

 

If you have any questions just post em here.

[strangefamous]

can I get a sticky

[Ted_Break_Danson]

you don't even have to do that extra channel unless it lowers file size or something if you just save it as 32bit TGA format from Photoshop.

[strangefamous]

I do it just because of clarity issues. That way I'm sure to have a definative line between transparent and non. But cool, just ignore my tutorial then and just save it as a tga lol

Edited November 23, 2004 by strangefamous

[Fatty]

You know, I"m thinking that I'll just come up with the ideas and send them your way. GG.

[Fatty]

Why don't you copy/paste something exactly like this in a new topic and we'll stick it in the public forum for all to enjoy?

[Ted_Break_Danson]

sorry i didn't mean to be shooting down your tutorial

i was just trying to help keep things simple :x

[strangefamous]

It's cool frog, I was unaware that you could save it just as a tga and have it accept it without a alpha mask on it, so thanks for pointing that out.. it was my bad.

[Cranky Bullfrog]

Hey SF - excellent work dude and very helpful for someone like me who doesn't know that much about the editing - just terrific information!

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

It's sharing techniques and knowledge like this that really keeps GC fun and friendly. We should do more of it!!! Perhaps we need a separate section on the board just for user-2-user tips!

 

Great job!!!!!

 

Cranky