Graphic question

williamconifer wrote on 11/24/2002, 5:10 PM
Grettings, This is a newbie question regarding graphics in Vegas. Forgive me if this is a bit elementry in complexity but I am new to both Vegas and Photoshop. I need to create a graphic in Photoshop (or any other lesser pgm) and use keyframing to do an extreme pull back. I know how to keyframe but I am having problems with the graphic. The image is a lime green square with the letters "AV" in the middle of it. The letters have to be totally transparent. By that I mean no green, white or anything. Through the letters "AV" I want to see the whats in back of whatever I overlay it in Vegas. I know an alpha channel gives you this tansparent layer I just don't know how to create this image in Photoshop and have it work in Vegas. Could someone give me some explicit directions here??

thanks
jack

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Jason_Abbott wrote on 11/24/2002, 5:50 PM
From Photoshop/ImageReady you can Save Optimized as a PNG graphic with the checkbox to "preserve transparency" enabled. However, I think you can do what you're describing entirely in Vegas. See if this is what you have in mind:

http://webott.com/wc.veg
BillyBoy wrote on 11/24/2002, 6:16 PM
Another way...ideal for irregular shapes.

See my tutorial page #5
http://www.wideopenwest.com/~wvg/tutorial-5.htm

The basic concept for Photoshop is open any image in any format. Select what you want to keep as visible, then either cut that portion out or mask it, saving that portion as a new file type that carries a Alpa channel. Or... just copy as a Photoshop file and drop that on the timeline. If you did things correctly the image will have the black and white checkerboard for everything except the part you wanted to keep.