I've created a hair texture in Painter, and exported it to photoshop format. By deleting the background layer I now have the hair texture with an alpha channel, perfect for transmapping. When I save this image as a TIFF or Photoshop file (which should include the alpha channel) and apply it as a texture in Poser, the alpha channel is not used as the transparency map. I do have Photoshop 4 LE, but I am Photoshop stupid. Is there a way to extract the alpha channel from my image and save it as a separate transparency map? I am using a Macintosh, BTW.

To answer your question. Just click on the chanels in the side menus, click on the alpha mask, (mask will be in the main window) select all. create a new PS doc, don't change anything, the NEW requester will have the dimentions of the copied mask. Paste into the new doc. Flatten and save. Hope this helps. Though I don't know if you have all these options in the LE version. James

Unfortunately there is no Channels window in Photoshop LE, and I don't see any way to select only the alpha channel to use as a mask. I don't really want to spend $599 to get Photoshop just for this. Can anyone suggest a different Mac program which could do the separation? This will be an iterative process so offers to do the separation for me, though appreciated, wouldn't really be useful.

http://www.chezmark.com/ Has a lot of freeware and shareware programs that change weekly. It also has archives from many past weeks. I think I saw a few freebie paint programs there that might do the trick. MAC only, people. James