I made an easy decal tutorial for the Tech Speak impaired for Paint Shop Pro 7

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Mirk Dread's Decal Tutorial for the Tech Speak Challenged

Feedback is welcomed

Thanks Mirk, I'm not a graphics person, but we have plenty of budding digital artists around here. Much appreciated.

Not bad... we might want to pin this one

Nice work!

You are most welcome

Mirk, that's fantastic.... I use Photoshop 7 and CS, and have never used PSP at all. Are you versed with PS any? And if so, do the basic steps follow the same path (realizing that yes, the same steps need to be done- just wondering about the program differences in how it's done.

Decals are one of the things that have eluded me for some time because I've just managed to figure out the masking process- and I still feel my brain begin to spasm whenever someone mentions an "alpha channel".

As much as I've read, and tried, I have yet to be able to define exactly what the alpha channel is, and what it does.

Thanks in advance!

There is something about Photoshop that over-compresses the files so the tranparency or alpha channel does not work in MW4... I am attempting to figure it out and will post my results or a tutorial . If anyone else already knows what to do with PS...please share the knowledge. As always use the KISS principle when explaining things....all of us aren't that bright (I include myself)