Thus spoke COUTIER Eric > But no, it doesn't work, i've already tried this before. I will try to > explain better myself , using an example: > > Imagine you've a photo of a crowd. You want to show up just a face on this > photo. So, you create a semi-opaque channel. Then, you select the face > (channel is seleted), perhaps feather it and then you cut it. Result: the > crowd is in "darkness" and the face you've selected is in normal light, > because there's a hole in the channel. It is this effect i can't save. I don't know why you can't merge the channel information into the layers, but apparently you can't. So you'll need to think of channels as a "save selection" mechanism and not an effects mechanism. I don't use channels since everything they can do I can do with layers instead. To get the effect you want just make a black layer above the background layer. Add a white layer mask to the black layer. Make a selection (feather it if you want) in the mask and fill it with white. Adjust the transparency of the black layer so it's a bit transparent. Now merge the visible layers and save to a jpeg or bmp. Hope that helps some. -- Michael J. Hammel The Graphics Muse mjhammel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.graphics-muse.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction is cheaper and faster than truth.
