1 Second Tutorial Assignment in Adobe Photoshop Creating and …

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Second Life Texture tutorials - Creating masks for transparency in Adobe Photoshop -. 2. -. Save the resized image as a .jpg and open in Adobe Photoshop …

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Tutorial in creating textures for Second Life
Tutorial designed by ‘Mizou Vavoom’ alias of Martine Y. Moeykens.
. Martine Moeykens - April 2006 - www.access4alldesign.com
Second Life Texture tutorials - Creating masks for transparency in Adobe Photoshop - 1
Second Tutorial: Assignment in Adobe Photoshop:
Creating and saving masks for graphics with transparency (windows)
1. What are ‘masks’?
- A mask applies a protective overlay to parts of an image, while one works on
the rest of the image.
- A ‘quick mask’ is a temporary overlay which disappears when one closes the
file.
- A ’saved mask’ is a selection area saved for further changes.
2. What are channels?
- The information on a saved mask is saved as a separate channel.
- The channels are colour information for RGB, red, blue, green and alpha
channels; the alpha channels saves information other then RGB like
transparency and other.
3. How do channels relate to textures in Second Life?
- In Second Life you may have seen walls with see through windows and cut
out panes for doors.
- These wall/window textures are saved images with masks over the window
panes.
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