Alpha in Photoshop Elements

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Simon Waldman - 28 Feb 2004 15:59 GMT

Can't decide whether this is on-topic, but in hope:

Can Photoshop Elements (v2) save a TIFF with an alpha channel? Elements
supports transparency internally, although it never refers to alpha, and
it has a TIFF option of "Save Transparency", but this doesn't seem to
make it readable by much else.

Thanks.

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Simon Waldman - 28 Feb 2004 18:41 GMT

> Can't decide whether this is on-topic, but in hope:
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> Thanks.

Don't worry, I was being a muppet - I was trying to use an alpha channel
on top of an 8-bit greyscale image. This would be sensible, giving a
total of 16bpp rather than 32 (with 16 wasted), but is not supported by,
well, anything AFAIK! :-)

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