anti-alias imported artwork

[bobtoon]

Hello everyone I am playing around with Mirage and trying to import a photoshop image. Having difficulty losing the white line appearing around my inked artwork. Have tried to select with the paint bucket selection and increase the selection by 1 but it's too much and crops my black linework.
Is there a way of either importing the transparent art from photoshop (Have tried this but get lots of disturbance in transparent area) or a way to control the selection in point one (.1) increments rather than just 1. Hope this makes sense to someone on the forum. If you'd rather send me a email I'm at bob(at)bobseal.com thanks for any comments. (White line around edge of art is more obvious on the 2k file than the attached image)
Bobtoon

[Peter Wassink]

There is a way, but i can't tell you the mirage method from the top of my head anymore, in TVP you would choose the scancleaner FX.
You can do it by using certain FX in the stack or by using papercut plugin that used to be available at the bauhaus forum.
i don't have either solution at hand right now
maybe someone else can answer you without to much trouble.

Nice artwork by the way

[ZigOtto]

hi Bob, and welcome.

- regarding your alpha importation issue, can you tell us more :
in what format did you transfer your artwork from PS to Mirage, PSD, PNG, TiFF, TGA, ...?

- supposing you can't get your image's alpha properly, here's an alternative way
(based on your image exemple) :
1) load your drawing(s) in an animlayer, drawing(s) opaque = black on white,
2) duplicate the layer, name the upper one "line", and the bottom one "fill",
3) on the "line" layer apply ther ScanCleaner_FX (or papercut for mirage's user,
papercut should be part of your mirage animator bar, but infortunately, it was not
parametrable, that's why tvpa's ScanCleaner_FX is much better !)
4) on the "fill" layer, erase the outside part of the chararcter, (as you did in your sample)
+ Erode_FX for 1 or 2 pixels (to eat the light edging pixels).

ps : you may change the layer order ("fill" up, "line" down), it's up to you.

my 2 cents.

[bobtoon]

Peter and ZigOtto thanks very much for your help.
The creation of the two layers (line and fill) and papercut did the trick

I think I need to spend some time exploring the software to get familiar with the differences between Photoshop processes and Mirage.
Hope to eventually afford to move up to TV paint. Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

Bob