Burning Transparancy level into an Image

[Ken Ray]

On 7/26/05 4:28 PM, "TJ Frame" <tjframe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>  Anyone know how to "collapse" or "burn in" the alpha channel of an image
> such that the image no longer has any transparency but looks like it did
> when it still had the transparency?
>  I'm making an app that manipulates graphics on top of an imported
> background image and activating the blend of the background image reduces
> speed greatly vs. having a non blended image underneath.
>  Right now I'm kludging it by bringing the source image into an image
> control, setting its blend level (either directly through the Alphadata or
> the Blendlevel), then saving it as a jpeg and reimporting the image back
> into Rev...
>  I would be grateful if anyone has a more elegant solution by correctly
> dipping into the Imagedata/Alphadata the first time

TJ, take a look at the Image tips on my site, specifically:

http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm?_imag005

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com