My silly attempt at making skulls......

[Ignite]

Forgive my amateurish skills, but was trying to see if I could create skulls...

.... lousy at drawing, so only came up with this:

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/johnlim/greek_peasant_skull.jpg

Somehow I can't seem to make the neck thinner (ie. make the excess meat transparent.

Tried to use PSP8.0 to create the transparency using the following steps:

1. Load image.
2. Layers -> New Mask Layer -> From Image
3. Select Any non-zero value
4. Edit away the portion I want transparent.
5. Save Mask to Alpha.
6. Delete Mask-Raster 1
7. Would you like this Mask merged into the layer below it? (No)
8. Layers -> Merge -> Merge All (Flatten)
9. Save Image as XXX.tga.dds

When I try to save, I get this message:

"Because of the limitations of the specified file format, no alpha channels will be saved. Would you like to continue?"

I select -> Yes

But I get this message instead:

"Alpha is all zero, formats in alpha will appear black in preview."

If I choose -> Yes, the file saves, but then the image becomes 100% transparent, nothing shows....

Am I doing something wrong?

Once again, apologies for the lame drawing...............

:san_sad:

[Ignite]

Ok, figured that first try was totally fugly, so tinkered a bit with the texture:

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/johnlim/greek_peasant_skull_02.jpg


But arrgh, still haven't figured out how to make the neck transparent or thin...PSP8 sux...

If nothing else, the pic now looks like some B-grade movie where some barbarians paint their faces into skulls to scare the enemy...............................

[QwertyMIDX]

You need to use alphas to make parts of the skull invisible.