Loading Selections from Alpha Channels

When you save a selection as an alpha channel within a .PspImage image, you can load that selection from the alpha channel into the same image or into any other image.

To load a selection from an alpha channel:

  1. Choose Selections > Load/Save Selection > Load Selection from Alpha Channel to open the Load Selection from Alpha dialog.

Note: In the Preview group box, click the Transparency button to show the area around the selection as either transparentor black .

  1. In the Load from Document drop-down list, select the image that contains the alpha channel you want to load. To load from another image’s alpha channel, the image must be open in Paint Shop Pro.

  2. In the drop-down list below the document name, choose the alpha channel that contains the selection you want to load.

  3. In the Operation group box, choose whether the selection you load replaces, adds to, or subtracts from the active selection in the image (if there is one).

  4. A message in the Operations group box indicates how the original alpha channel rectangle (which is the saved selection) intersects the canvas of the current image: completely intersects, does not completely intersect (part of the selection is off the canvas), or does not intersect at all. If it partially intersects or does not intersect, mark the Move to Upper Left of Canvas check box to move the selection onto the image canvas.

  5. In the Options group box, choose from these check boxes:

  6. Mark the Move to upper left of canvas check box to place the loaded selection in the upper left. If the check box is cleared, the selection remains in the same position it was on the original image.

  7. Mark the Clip to canvas check box to clip the selection at the places where it goes beyond the image canvas.

  8. Mark the Invert image check box to select everything outside the original selection.

  1. Click the Load button. The selection displays on the current layer.

Related Topics

Saving Selections to Alpha Channels

Saving Selections to Disk

Loading Selections from Disk

Deleting Selections from Alpha Channels