Photoshop: Saving multiply as transparency
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- JonGee
I've drawn a total blank: I have some scanned pencil lines (white background) that I want to export as a png with a transparent background (only the pencil lines). I've got them set to multiply/darken to comp up, but of course when I save for web the transperency from the multiply doesn't remain because there are no underlying objects to blend with.
Anyway, I can't remeber how the hell I used to export clean transparent objects from a multiplied layer. Anyone have a preffered method?
- welded0
Some other dude a few months ago had the same issue. The concensus was to either create a mask with your B&W scan or define it as a brush and stamp it onto a layer with no background fill.
- e-pill0
can you save it as an eps and bring it into illustrator and then png it from there?
*smokes another bowl!
:)
- fusionpixel0
select the white and delete it, now you can export to PNG
- JonGee0
Thanks for taking the time to respond guys.
I now recall I usually use a levels adjustment layer to pump up the black, select the white areas to delete from the orginal with a little feathering.
- laurus0
if you only have one color in your layer:
sample the color and save it in a swatch.
hit comm+ shift +u to disaturate the image.
hit comm+alt+tilde to load the light pixels.
hit delete.
select the color you saved.
fill the layer with alt+shift+delete.
now you have a transparent layer.
save as png