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- From: filibert@vista (Daniel Filiberti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Changing alpha only?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.053919.19601@ohsu.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 05:39:19 GMT
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- Hi Everybody!
-
- Another quirky problem. I need to mask an area of an image
- by changing the alpha value within the area to 1 (for
- example) and everything outside the area to (0). The
- catch is that I need to retain the original RGB data within
- the whole image (not just the masked area! otherwise
- clipping would work!). I have a path to clip to, easy
- enough, but how can I draw only to the alpha channel? Or,
- how do I use some strange combination of compositing
- functions to do this? The images are RGB tiffs, no alpha,
- so compositing defaults to an opaque alpha (1, I
- think)...
-
- In simpler terms, I need all of the image data, and the
- alpha channel to mask a region of interest within
- it...easy, right? Any takers?
-
- Daniel Filiberti
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