Image data channels

Just how difficult is it to view an alpha channel in an image nowadays? Whatever software you look at it always seems to be a tortuous trek to go from viewing the colour channels to examining what's in the alpha channel. For games developers this is a nightmare as alpha channels are used in artwork all the time. But all that pain goes away with Imagina.

As standard, Imagina combines the alpha channel with the colour channels to render the image as it should be. If you want to view the alpha channel in isolation, then just choose the Alpha Channel option from the View menu. It really is that simple.

So, viewing the alpha channel, no problem. Viewing the colour channels in combination with the alpha channel, no problem. Viewing the colour channels with no alpha channel, no problem. With Imagina, you've got it all.

Now compare that with Paint Shop Pro for instance. It has a very unintuitive process that takes no less than five mouse clicks and two dialog screens to get the alpha channel displayed along with the colour channels. If you want to display the alpha channel on its own, outside of a small preview window at least, then you're completely out of luck.