this is a Poser image I did for something else. The hair has quite a lot of 'holes' so I thought it would be a good example. It was rendered in Poser against white and saved as .tiff. I opened it in PSP6 (could that be the difference--I still have 5 on my HD--may try that). The one on the left was selected directly from the alpha channel. It has a bit of 'light' around it. The one on the right I went back to the .tiff and went to selections/modify/contract one pixel. No jaggies, no white--and this is against black. I'm still wondering if you are selecting with the magic wand instead of the alpha channel. I'll try this in 5 also. Diane B

I just tried it in PSP5 and it was exactly the same. I opened .tiff, went to selections/load from alpha channel/clicked okay, then copied/pasted as new layer. Then I went back to .tiff again, went to selections/modify/ contract 1 pixel and copied and pasted as ANOTHER new layer. All the jaggy stuff is gone--altho' I lost a little of the very transparent hair strands. Does this help at all? Diane B

I'm afraid I have never used the Alpha Channel so will have to do some reading up on it. Don't know what it does. Thanks Diane. Will even try to do in PSP6 since I have both but prefer 5. Will it make the background transparent. what I have been doing is making the background color the transparent color and copy and pasting as a transparency. Back to the books!

Look above, this will be printscreen of this same image with alpha channel. That's your problem and we'll solve it without any problems G. Yes, that's exactly what it does--make the background of the figure transparent. You'll see. Diane B