vegas and photoshop
I keep forgetting about this problem, so I never ask.
I want to extract something in photoshop, lets say a man from the background (edit, I am talking about STILL pics here). and save it with the transparent background. I save as a PSD, and drag into vegas, but it never saves the transparent background....how do I make that work? |
nevermind, figured out it needed to be saved as a PNG
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Ian, you can also drag the psd file into Vegas and it will retain transparency. Just turn off the unwanted layers in Photoshop, leaving just your desired content.
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No worries. You just have to make sure that the ONLY layer turned on in Photoshop is the one you want to bring into Vegas. Ah, just occurred to me - not sure when this feature was introduced in Vegas so maybe you have an older version?
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If Vegas doesn't see the transparency, you might also try right-clicking the image, going into Properties, and then changing the transparency method.
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Edward's suggestion is the main reason I now convert Photoshop files to PNG before bringing them into Vegas :-)
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Just a personal preference, but I like to be able to go back to the psd to make adjustments, without going through the additional step saving as png (maybe I'm lazy!!).
I get the impression that some people aren't experiencing the automatic use of transparency with a psd. I seem to be able to just bring them in to Vegas in exactly the state I save the file in Photoshop (ie only selected layers are brought over). Is this a version thing, or maybe a setting in preferences? |
Ian, I use Photoshop 7 and always have to adjust the transparency mode in Vegas if I import a PSD file.
I know it's a few more mouse clicks but PNGS work without this problem so I've gotten used to doing it this way. |
Here's a way to make it permanent. Drop the PSD on the timeline, right-click it, change the transparency mode, and then click on the little floppy disc icon. From then on it will use that transparency mode automatically.
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Hi Mike - if it works it works! No criticism of anyone else's method intended, just curious to learn that some people are bringing 'em straight in while others aren't/can't.
Png would be my first format of choice after psd, or when I have so many images I want to keep file size/memory use down. I find other users' habits really interesting. I think people would scream to learn that if I am recording a voiceover I don't do it in Vegas - I go out to Cakewalk Sonar, render it there and import the wav into Vegas. Go figure . . . :-) |
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