If you wish to save your own, the same setup is required.Īnd be careful in what way the terms “lasso” and “mask” are used in Photoline: the lasso is the visible selection border, while a mask always refers to the underlying greyscale bitmap (alpha?). When you open a TIFF file with an alpha channel, this alpha channel becomes available at the top of the layer stack. This is one of a couple of things I would like to see amended, but it is possible to work with alpha channels in the regular layer stack. Two things are not possible in Photoline’s channel panel (compared to Photoshop): custom channels, and saving alpha channels/selections. Channels can also be copied to the layer stack (button at the bottom of the channels panel). Channels in the Channels panel can be directly edited, but it is more effective and simpler to do this with the channel buttons in the various tools. Changes to the source layer mask cascade in realtime through the layer stack.Ĭhannels work differently in Photoline. Layer masks may be virtually cloned, and re-used in the layer stack. And layer masks can have their own layer masks. Layer masks in Photoline are far more powerful than the ones in Photoshop: for example, adjustment layers and layer effects may be applied to layer masks. Then use the group as a clipping mask or layer mask. Just setup a group of layers, and group these. Layer masks / clipping masks can also consist of a layer group. Anything can become a layer mask (or part of a layer mask group) in Photoline: vector and text layers, bitmaps, etc.
When you drag a clipping layer on another layer, it is converted to a layer mask.
Right-mouse click on the eye icon to convert any layer to a clipping mask (“clip”). In Photoline layer masks behave like regular layers, and can also behave as clipping layers. In Photoshop it’s easier to understand what are you doing and what to expect. It’s quite difficult to understand this behavior. Apparently all these ones are very similar but different and they can interact together in some form and sometimes is even a contradiction.
Photoline layer style save software#
It’s a very nice software but I’m having troubles to understand how it works the alpha channels, the masks and the clipping layers.
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