Hi all, what I do when loading a picture in the picture editor to get the alpha channel is the following. 1)in the first box click load and find the picture(not a jpeg) as usual 2)select "copy" from that window an select "paste" into) the second window (this loads the alpha channel) 3)a little dialog will pop up and ask you if you wan't to delete. select "Yes" 4) you will then see the combination of the RGB and alpha channel in the 3rd window. Click the checkmark as usual and then there you go. This is especially good when you want to use the picture for a bump channel. also try loading yet another (seperate) picture for the alpha channel (second window). you can get some really cool textures that way. That it for my mini tutorial :)~ Hope it helps Hawkfyr

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