Photoshop - Open .png has color at half opacity and where is alpha channel?

Alex_J · Jan 2020

If I open a png file in photoshop 2020, the color layers appear to be at half opacity (this baked in, actual layer is at 100% opacity), and there appears to be no alpha channel. Is this normal behavior? Am I setting something up wrong?

throttlekitty · Jan 2020

You can create the alpha channel from the Layer>Layer Mask>From Transparency.

Ghogiel · Jan 2020

That's the correct behaviour.

I think you do something like layer >layer mask> from transparency.

Alex_J · Jan 2020

thanks guys! I had hard time finding an answer.

Eric Chadwick · Jan 2020

Yeah and also check out SuperPNG.

Photoshop - Open .png has color at half opacity and where is alpha channel?

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