Saturday, May 15, 2010

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Importing PSD or Tiff with alpha ... They look awful

If you decrease the Tool Tolerance to 1 or 2 pixels before you begin the
selection, it looks less rough.


Brian Conner


chlowden wrote:
> Many thanks to you all.
> I have been playing around with loads of different combinations and I have found this.
>
> 1. Importing psd files with layers looks like sh...t. Only useful when one is in a hurry.
>
> 2. For the best results, I used the HDTV 1920x1080 72 dpi frame in Photoshop, flattened each layer, created an alpha channel using the quick mask tool and exported out each layer as a tiff or png file. In SD, the export looked awful.
>
> This is extremely laborious because any letter with a hole in it i.e. O,A,D, etc has to clicked by hand.
>
> But even after all this, the matte is still rough when you zoom into it.


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