Saving TiFF with seperate layer mask

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Re: Saving TiFF with seperate layer mask

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JPG files do NOT allow transparency.
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Re: Saving TiFF with seperate layer mask

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I do not think IM allows you to create a 'masked' TIFF.

Remember IM is a generalized conversion tool, and it is very hard for it to be able to generate specialized aspects of every image file format, though it does try.

You could put in a request in the development forum for the TIFF coder to be expanded (somehow) to allow this. Though how you can define the second image to be treated as a separate 'alpha' channel masking image is a problem.
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