Using Mask in .tif format - Need help!

[MarioR]

HI Guys, I,m sorry I havent visited this wonderful site for a long time but life as a way of keeping you buzzy doing other things then repainting aircrafts and stuff. I'm working on a repaint project for an aircraft in fsx and I just received a paint kit for it but the problem is that the aircraft details masks are in .tif format. When I open the masks with photoshop I get a large black layer with the details (in a grey colour). I d'ont know how to get rid of the black or what to make of it. When I look at the masks using windows photo viewer I see thes images perfectly with white backgrounds and all the details are there.

My question is how do I make these .tif format mask layers work for me in photoshop.

Thanks for your help!

Mario

[adlabs6]

My hunch is that the black and gray showing in Photoshop is the alpha channel layer.

I'm not too familiar with alpha channels in Photoshop, but hiding it should be possible. Maybe under the "Channels" stack there is an alpha channel you can hide, leaving just the RGB layers visible?

[MarioR]

Hey thanks for your quick response Adlabs6! I'll try that and I really apprciate your help!

Mario

[MarioR]

I looked in the channel and did not find any alpha channel.

Sorry!

[Serval]

Maybe those two links get you going:
Working with channels > Masks and Channels in Adobe Photoshop CS6
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/679152?tstart=0

[jannatul18]

I am not so expert but got idea from a forum posting.You can get some help from this forum post How to make transparent tif in photoshop? , I hope it will works for you. Good luck

[MarioR]

Thank you Seval and Jannatul18 for your help. I will check it out soon.

Thanks again guys!

Mario

[jannatul18]

Thank you Seval and Jannatul18 for your help. I will check it out soon.

Thanks again guys!

Mario

You are most welcome Mario and good luck for your work.