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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	To quote warjournal, our master of short and to the point ramblings: [quote]Upping Opacity I love using Edit > Fill with Mode: Behind. 101 Uses But it doesn't always work. Like on photos when you need to bring the opacity of individual pixels in a layer up to 100% while mantaining the colour data. Grab a photo. Grab Eraser tool, make it big and soft, and give the photo a few strokes. You know have some partial transparency in the photo. Now, the pixels in the photo's layer have two different types of data: colour and opacity. Let's say you want to get those partially transparent pixel's opacity back up to 100% with their original colours. Well, Fill Behind just won't work because it uses a solid colour. Doh! The fix? Simple enough. Copy the layer Merge down (ctrl + e) Rinse Repeat The lowest % opacity pixel will basically tell you how many times to copy. Or you could just eyeball it, which is no big deal. This trick has saved my posterior a few times. The down side: When a pixel reaches Opacity: 0 (Transparency: 100%), the colour information is tossed. That has Suck Factor: 115%. The complete fix? Use a Layer Mask! Some people don't, and dealing with it can be a pain. Hopefully you'll never have to deal with it. In case you do, the above trick should fix things (with the exception of 100% transparent pixels, which is another story all-together).[/quote] -------------------------------- Relevant threads: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000004/HTML/20030309-3-003120.html]Two quick rambles[/url] ___________________ [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Tyberius+Prime]Tyberius Prime [/url] on Fri 10-Jan-2003)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Fri 10-Jan-2003)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Michael]Michael [/url] on Sun 09-Mar-2003)[/i][/small] Loading...
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