Comments on: Photoshop Elements 6 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/04/03/photoshop-elements-6/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:30:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jens Alfke http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/04/03/photoshop-elements-6/comment-page-1/#comment-271680 Jens Alfke Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:12:18 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/04/03/photoshop-elements-6/#comment-271680 @Eric — Funny you should ask. My kids came to me, almost in tears, yesterday afternoon because Elements 6 wouldn't recognize the alpha channel in a PNG file they were opening. (See, it's a file of sprites from Sonic The Hedgehog, and they wanted to copy the characters and paste them into a background to make a sprite comic. But in Photoshop there's a blue background behind all the sprites, not transparent.) They ended up opening the PNG in Acorn and copying and pasting into Photoshop. Yay. @Eric — Funny you should ask. My kids came to me, almost in tears, yesterday afternoon because Elements 6 wouldn't recognize the alpha channel in a PNG file they were opening. (See, it's a file of sprites from Sonic The Hedgehog, and they wanted to copy the characters and paste them into a background to make a sprite comic. But in Photoshop there's a blue background behind all the sprites, not transparent.)

They ended up opening the PNG in Acorn and copying and pasting into Photoshop. Yay.

]]> By: Michael http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/04/03/photoshop-elements-6/comment-page-1/#comment-271673 Michael Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:57:18 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/04/03/photoshop-elements-6/#comment-271673 I use optipng rather than pngcrush—not sure what the difference is. My experience is that optipng helps in both cases, and that starting with a Photoshop PNG usually results in a smaller file (and never a larger one). I use optipng rather than pngcrush—not sure what the difference is. My experience is that optipng helps in both cases, and that starting with a Photoshop PNG usually results in a smaller file (and never a larger one).

]]> By: Eric Blair http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/04/03/photoshop-elements-6/comment-page-1/#comment-271663 Eric Blair Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:35:08 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/04/03/photoshop-elements-6/#comment-271663 Any thoughts on using Photoshop for PNGs versus something like a combination of Acorn and pngcrush? Any thoughts on using Photoshop for PNGs versus something like a combination of Acorn and pngcrush?

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