Little problem with transparency

onlylalla · Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Posts: 509 Location: Italy

Hi, there is anyone Photofiltre expert who can help me? I quite often have to make transparencies (especially if I have to make laces) and sometimes I have a problem that for now I'm not able to solve. An example: The image is a normal lace, white lace on black background. Clicking the icon for transparency, not the black background of the image becomes transparent, but the colors appear reversed: the transparency is applied to the white lace, so I can not paste it on map. I tried to invert in all ways but it did not works. The same thing happened to me some days ago with the texture for a room. I prepared a black texture, then with the filter I created a white grid over it. I filled the grid with a wooden texture to simulate the frame of a window and clicked the transparency to paste it on the image of a garden. Also in this case the transparency has been applied to the grid and not to the black background. In this case, however, I easily solved by creating directly a grid on the garden image with the line tool, but if I could paste the entire wooden grid texture the result would have been better...Thanks if anyone can give me some advice!
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Uberess · Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Posts: 215 Location: USA - GA

Hi there, I've never even heard of Photofiltre until now. But i did a little search and i might have found a tutorial that helps. http://jptom.free.fr/PageTuto/tutoriels/bulle_eng.html

My brain is groggy and in need of coffee at the moment but what it looks like to me is that your program works similar to imvu, applying a black and white image to the alpha channel to create transparency/visibility. I think it looks quite interesting actually. And even though I already use Gimp and PS it might be worth learning more about photofiltre if more people are using this program.
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onlylalla · Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Posts: 509 Location: Italy

Thank you Uberess, this is an interesting tutorial that can be useful for many things. I am very happy with Photofiltre, which is a program much easier to use than PS or Gimp but fairly complete, all my jobs are done with that ... I have Gimp, but despite all my efforts and the various tutorials I've seen I'm never been able to understand it and would only use it when I need some particular filters.
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