create automatic alpha text with blending options

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smartcel
Nov 28, 2006
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In Photoshop CS it somehow was possible to make a targa image with text that has an alpha channel without merging it with a blank layer when using
blending options (shadow, outer glow). Cause when you CTRL click the layer it will not select the shadow blended area.
Since I installed Photoshop CS2, I cannot make text with a blending option and save it directly to a targa for video. Now I first have to add a blank layer, merge it, select the layer and with channels save the selection as alpha.
That is a lot of work because we makes lots of titles.
I reinstalled Photoshop CS again but now it’s the same.
Any text made does not have automatically an alpha, and I never used this technique before. Collegues in the video industry say the comlicated way is the way to make alpha titles, but I’ve done it for several years now.

So I hope someone can help me.

Otherwise I’ve seen a software plugin (tools for television pro) that makes an alpha with a click, without having to merge a textlayer with a blank layer just because it has some blending options (shadow, glow)

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Bernie
Nov 28, 2006
Hum,

Shadow and outer glow are layer effects, not blending modes.

You could reccord an action that does this and assign an F-key to it
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Chris_Cox
Nov 29, 2006
Or use another file format that doesn’t have a lot of screwed up notions about transparency…

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