Tutorial - how to alpha in psp9

[Afronight_76]

For all you n00bs who dont know how to alpha out parts, and cant find a tutorial specifically for psp9, here it is. Its quite simple really, but you can easily mess up.
Step 1 - open up skin UV map in psp9 (get the UV from wc3 veiwer)

Step 2 - go to layers > load/save mask > load mask from alpha channel

Step 3 - click load. your skin should show the alpha channel now

step 4 - select 100% normal brush. black is to make things invisible, white is to reverse that.

step 5 - edit to your liking (note: not all parts have alpha capabilities. other note: in order to get rid of team color, use white. use black to reverse that.

step 6 - go to layers > load/save mask > save mask to alpha channel. now when the window pops up, before you choose Save, rename the alpha channel to Alpha Channel 1 (INCLUDE ALL CAPS)

step 7 - in order to go back to editing the skin normally, in the layers pallete, right click Group - Raster and go to Merge > Merge All (flatten)

load your skin into wc3viewer and check the results. if it's white, then you either did something wrong or the part doesnt have alpha capabilities.

if your finished product looks like this, then you know you've mastered alphaing (sort of)

 

[eXciTe]

Its only for psp9?? i have 8 ....

 

[ElfWarfare]

I think it will work for 6+ i have 8 and 9 and it works

 

[eXciTe]

I think it will work for 6+ i have 8 and 9 and it works

Ok thats really cool

 

[Ex-AnGel]

i got photoshop 6.0, and i can't find it...

 

[Eerie_Elf]

i vant find that UV thingy in the viewer
where is it:?:

 

[Kimbo]

What is a UV? Can u tell me where it is and what its is?

 

[Afronight_76]

a uv is the skin unwrapped. in other words, it's what youre editing over.

 

[Kimbo]

So i just extract any skin? What do i export it as? I use psp 8.

 

[Jacek]

UV's are like XY but for texture coordinates...

 

[FwH-Sky-Reaver]

Whats PSP ?

 

[juanandome]

psp is adobe photoshop

Is the alpha channel used for the player color ????

 

[Kimbo]

psp is NOT adobe photoshop.

psp is PAINT SHOP PRO

 

[ChadD]

Thank you very much Afro, I'm going to bookmark this one, I'm getting PSP9 soon.