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Photoshop not recognizing alpha channel from After Effects still frame export.

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Zak StoltzPhotoshop not recognizing alpha channel from After Effects still frame export.
by on Jun 8, 2012 at 8:19:34 pm

Just like it sounds. I have an image with a transparent BG in AE that I want to be able to open in Photoshop. I go to Composition>Save Frame As then choose a PSD with transparency. It exports fine. The alpha channel shows up when I do quicklook on the Mac. It shows up in Preview. I have transparency when I import it into Final Cut. I have transparency when I bring it back into After Effects. But when I try to open it up in Photoshop, it has a black background. I have also tried a TIFF with transparency, but that doesn't work either.

Anyone know what's happening here? Am I missing something important?


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Jeff HinkleRe: Photoshop not recognizing alpha channel from After Effects still frame export.
by on Jun 8, 2012 at 9:22:00 pm

Check your Channels palette and see if the alpha channel is in there. If it is, just Command-click its thumbnail to make a selection of it and then you can make a layer matte out of that. That should get you your transparency back.


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Zak StoltzRe: Photoshop not recognizing alpha channel from After Effects still frame export.
by on Jun 8, 2012 at 9:55:19 pm

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately that only works halfway. I get the outline transparency back, but some of the semi-transparent colorized areas get knocked out. I might not be creating the mask correctly, but the real problem is that I can't just open up this image that's supposed to have transparency built into it.


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Jeff HinkleRe: Photoshop not recognizing alpha channel from After Effects still frame export.
by on Jun 8, 2012 at 10:06:11 pm

Have you tried Composition>Save Frame As>Photoshop Layers instead of Save Frame As>File...? I just gave that a try on a few projects and they popped open with transparency built in.


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Zak StoltzRe: Photoshop not recognizing alpha channel from After Effects still frame export.
by on Jun 9, 2012 at 1:28:18 am

I did try that, but it's the same problem. Here's some screen grabs of what it looks like in AE versus what it looks like in Photoshop when I try to export as layers:

http://imgur.com/a/S6CIN

Photoshop on top.
AE on the bottom.

It's not the biggest difference, but it's enough to be annoying and unusable for certain applications.


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