Re: How to make Tiff with a mask?
Re: How to make Tiff with a mask?
- Subject: Re: How to make Tiff with a mask?
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 20:40:24 +0100
Joe,
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>>>>> Joe Chan (JC) wrote at Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:04:29 -0500:
JC> I looked at various Cocoa apps, and most uses tiffs in the
JC> toolbars that are nicely masked. How does one go about creating
JC> it? It looked as if the mask is defined by the black pixels
JC> surrounding the image. But when I tried to do so, I get a big
JC> black square around it, not the mask. I looked all over Apple's
JC> docs (searching for tiff and mask), and come up with nothing.
What mask, on earth? This is not something like PICT, this is a full-featured TIFF!
Therefore, if I understand you properly that you are after images which are
partially transparent, then just use that -- transparency, AKA alpha channel.
They are supported directly in various tools (like ToyViewer).
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