Transparencies

i only recall seeing one component that uses opacity. however, this feature seems to be limited to internal comparisons of foreground to background. you can make the foreground more or less opaque compared to the background.

what i'd like to see is making an image truly transparent compared to the canvas. i'm not sure this would work in the stand-alone use of FF, but it shld work when using FF as a plugin since you are applying the filter to a layer in ps, psp or some other graphic editor. i know that one problem with this is file formats. not all formats can handle transparencies.

i also know that if you save almost any file format with a transparency that it will save the transparent part as black or white instead of transparent.

layered file formats and some formats with a built in alpha channel, like .pspimage and .psd can handle this and this is why i say that using this in the stand-alone might not work.

i'd also like to be able to make just parts of an image or parts of an effect transparent and be able to control how much or how little and which parts of an image get made transparent. this is especially handy when overlaying one effect but not another across a whole image.

on this selectable area, i suppose i'm talking about masks. i'd like to mask areas based on things like curves and other components. now, i can do this back in my graphic editor, either before i use the FF plugin or after i make an image in FF and export it. so, this makes this function in FF a lower priority, since it can be done outside of FF. nonetheless, i can see a use for it in FF, if nothing more than the ease of which the curve ops and curve functions can do things.

i could see a whole set of filters that did nothing but make masks.

craig

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Kraellin wrote: i'd also like to be able to make just parts of an image or parts of an effect transparent and be able to control how much or how little and which parts of an image get made transparent.

You already can.

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Kraellin wrote: i could see a whole set of filters that did nothing but make masks.

Make a filter with transparent areas and apply it to a fully transparent layer.