Ghastly pink transparency

and "do as thou wilt shall be the whoel of the law", huh?

think about what you just said:

"The problem comes in that when I do stuff in photoshop, it tends to anti-alias into the pink"

the optimal word here is "anti aliaas"

if you look under your options for any selection tool, you will see a little check box marked "anti-alias"

Turn It Off.

For painting, make general, un-anti-aliased shapes and paint inside them.

Thusly, no anti aliasing problems, eh?

Also, ,the "ghastly pink" is used, almost universalllly as the transparent color, because, it doesn't occur in nature, and almost never occurs in anyones art. It's just that ghastly.
therefore, it is the perfect color to be deemed "invisible"...

I'd be lost without that pink....

Thank you sir, I shall look into it, I've just never noticed an anti alias option for a lot of the tools, but that's not to say it's not there. I must say I'm a little disappointed that I will not be able to include that lovely colour into my upcoming "Miss Cleo" themeset though.

"Da cards, dem neva lie."
Miss Cleo, 2001.

You still can! Instead of an RGB value of 255,0,255 you can use all sorts of similar colors like 254,0,255 or 255,1,255. Don't let your imagination be stiffled - use every imaginable derivation of magic pink in your artwork! Skinning should give you the freedom of expression - don't let the skin spec fence you in - revolt I say and use those pinks!

(Just kidding of course)

Xy is right, you can define any color you want to be the invisible color.

And if you have not taken enough instruction in Photoshop to know about the anti-aliasing options, perhaps you would better invest your time, at this point, in taking some more.

www.photoshopclub.com
www.adobe.com

and of course, that big wonderful book that came with your fully legal and registered copy of Photoshop.

As it happens, I've been using Photoshop for quite some time now, and as of version 6 I actually own a genuine copy for once in my filthy thieving life. RTFM though? Reading manuals is against my religion or something.

AJC....don't get into LiteSTEP, then....

what I do is merging the layers with anti-alias on a medium grey layer and paint all what I want in pink manually (this case don't use anti-alias).
Make some test to be sure you don't have too many medium grey left all around.

Hmm, I usually stick a non-anti-aliased layer on top where I make the pink spots pink.

another solution:
make yer skin, then save a copy of it
open the copy
run the threshold up until you get just an outline of the skin (the threshold will be 2 tone)

paste a copy of that "outline" image into the top layer of your actual skin.
use the magic wand tool (with anti-aliasing Off) to select the area outside your skin surface.
fill that area with magic pink.
invert selection and hit delete.
now you have a perfect mask for your skin!
hehehehhehe---easy

Jafo spake: "I'd be lost without that pink"
Wouldn't we all, mate? Nudge, nudge wink

Many helpful comments. Thank you people. You see kenray, who ever RTFM with photoshop?

heheheh AJ,

everone who's certified and making a handsome living off of it...

also, if you read the manual, you can be that nice person who goes on newsgroups and messageboards and answers all those really silly questions the newbeez ask...hehehehehehehehhehe

(oh, and then you'll know how to record your own action sets ...look "actions" up in the manual, it'll save you a year)

If I ever get me a lgeit version of PhotoShop, I will definitely read the manual. If only to see if there's something I've missed.

Grr, I type like Kenray... lgeit --> legit

I am making a tidy living off of it, well at least Photoshop is a small part of it. I'd say I know photoshop pretty well now (I've been using it for about 7 years), and the anti-aliasing thing was a silly oversight on my part. The trouble I have with manuals is that they're so often useless, anyone that tried to learn Flash by reading the supplied manual will know this, still, can't hurt to take a look, I'm sure I could've saved myself hours in the past reading the Photoshop manual, but what's done is done.

7 years without ever knowing about the anti-aliasing option...y'know, if this were a courtroom, I would have to cross-examine you to the point of weeping on that statement.

but this is just a silly little messageboard, so i will just go over here and snicker softly to myself.....

...with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Faerie.

Curse you Kenray. If you'd been using pirated copies of photoshop for years (since version 3 I think), then finally decided to buy it, because, frankly, it's worth it, would you read the manual? Ok, so I'm a horrible monster and I pray for death

hehehe...and if you'd been using it since before it had a version number, at your company, as a job, you would certainly know more about it than to be up in here asking about anti aliasing...

but seriously, i am just bussin yer chops...noo harm meant.

so, did i hit it on yer screen name?
a reference to Alistaire?

"you can check out any time you like,
but you can never leave"