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Guide to creating 32-bit bitmap's in Photoshop


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  Debugger said:
Funny...

A 32 Bit Image is RGB image plus an alpha channel to define its transparency. CMYK( Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black ) is for printing... never ever convert a RGB image to CYMK. You will lose a lot of colors if you do.

:yes: hes right cdog is wrong ( i hope :p )

u got to change the mode from RGB to index then save then a box comes up and then select 32 bit u have a 32 bitmapped image :p :cool:

(if ur saving it as a .bmp)

:cool:

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If you think photoshop is the be-all-end-all of graphics software then you have problems. That or you're a sheep.

Anywho, yes you're right and in fact, you can't save 32bit CMYK BMP images due to the colour loss if you did. It can't hold the colour seperation data. I do a lot of stuff for print so, forgive my mistake...but do me a favour and quit all this wrist action over photoshop...

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I acknowledge the fact that photo-paint is a good software for image manipulation. But, i still think that photoshop is the best tool for this task. In fact nearly all the adobe products are the best in their own domains perhaps except indesign, which is not as good as the good ol' widely used Quark Xpress

Anyway, that's just my opinion :)

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  Cubiz said:
I thought if it was an image for a logon, it had to be a .bmp

It does have to be a bmp. XP hardly even supports .png. Just look at the way it displays them in IE.

The alpha channel thing. If you add an alpha channel won't that force Photoshop to save in 32 bit mode? It should at least give you the option.

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If you want transparency, then you'll need to give it an alpha channel. Bring up the layers toolbox and create a new layer, add whatever you want to the alpha channel then choose 32bit when saving.

Most programs however use the 'magic pink' colour to define transparency though.

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  amr_01 said:
in photoshop cs, i click save-as, select bmp, select where i want to save it, then it comes up with a window that gives me an option to save as 32-bit.

As a reference, that is exactly what Photoshop 7 gives you (talked about earlier in thread).

  nexx said:
If you want transparency, then you'll need to give it an alpha channel. Bring up the layers toolbox and create a new layer, add whatever you want to the alpha channel then choose 32bit when saving.

Most programs however use the 'magic pink' colour to define transparency though.

True enough.

If you give me a chance, I'll try exactly what you are trying to do later.

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