Okay so I purchased CTA2 and I want to create an actor from my photo, so I go on Youtube
and I see a tutorial-Turn your photos into an animated character. So its says Cropping and Masking raw photo. Well I can't even get a raw file to load?
Okay so I load a jpeg file and I want to mask out the background. Hmmm I cannot seem to find the ""mask editor""
Maybe I'm not getting this thing? Can anybody help? Am I missing something?

It is not available in CTA2. Yet. Between version 1 and 2, the masking was removed but is going to be added in an update. Right now, masking is best achieved in an external image editor.

okay well that answers it, thank you

Any idea when?

I think I have a question related to this too.

So.. I can load several types of image files (*.png, *.gif,...etc)... But nowhere in online tutorials or anywhere else can I find information how to prevent the image to be one big square.

This most likely has to do with the masking not being there I presume?

Ex.: I already have some images of a character I use in my video editor, that have real-green or real-blue. In my video-editor (from magix) I can make these transparent. So one image is of a head with the outer edge of the face partly real-green, so that the face will only show roundness.

What filetype should I use when I import a bodypart, to prevent a big square with green edges appearing? Or is this still not possible due to masking not being available?

Should it not be possible, without masking being there, to use images normal by using real-green or blue? If so,... where can I find that option?

Below an example of what I mean, but in this case a full sheep with real-blue in the background:

The image will always be a big square, but you could just mask the blue out in an external editor, and save it as a transparent PNG file for using in CTA2.

Ha thanks. that was exactly what I could not figure out: What filetype to use.

So I should preferably only use png files, if I make my own characers and bodyparts.

thanks.

have you tried feathing /grading the edges in a 3rd party program ?

that will give you smooth faded edges - otherwise you would have to go vector because the nature of jpg are those square pixels.

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