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Re: Tiff with mask
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Re: Tiff with mask


  • Subject: Re: Tiff with mask
  • From: rsharp <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:27:06 -0600 (CST)

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ondra Cada wrote:

> Mamdouh,
>
> >>>>>> Mamdouh (M) wrote at Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:20:52 +0100:
> M> So my question is how do i make tiff4s with masks?
>
> You don't. TIFFs don't support masks. They support much better thing -- the
> alpha channel. Just set whatever part of your image which should be
> transparent to have full alpha, and whantever part which should be opaque to
> have zero alpha.
>
> BEsides, you can use all the values between 0 and 1 to have partially
> transparent parts of image, which is something mask would never allow you.

Masks do not have to be limited though to 1-bit depth. Whether you call
it a mask or an alpha channel really makes no difference.

Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)
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