Finding the difference of black and transparent images

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Re: Finding the difference of black and transparent images

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I do it by habit. In some cases, when doing other things with selected channels, you need to reset the channel settings so that you have a proper full RGB image and not just one or two channels. In this case, it probably does not matter.
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