Alpha masking question

monkeYB07 · February 7, 2009, 2:18am

Hello everybody. Ive got an alpha from photoshop which is simply black and white with no fade. When using it with either a standard or layer brush to mask an area with dragrec stroke the mask gets blurred at the edges. How can I turn this off to get a non faded mask ?

Here is an image which shows the problem

goast666 · February 7, 2009, 6:10am

play with the focal shift…-100 i think. if that doesn’t work mess with the alpha and brush curves

aurick · February 9, 2009, 7:17am

Also, make sure that you create and save your alpha as a 16-bit Grayscale PSD. Other formats (and bit depths) will either introduce artifacts or lose quality due to bit depth.

monkeYB07 · February 10, 2009, 6:18am

Thx for the help. Will try.