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“cutouts”
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Tutorials··11 min readChecking a Cutout You Did Not Make, Before You Build On It
Six checks for a transparent PNG that arrived from a freelancer, a supplier or an asset pack. The partially transparent pixel count is the one almost nobody reads, and it is what separates a usable cutout from a stencil.
Tutorials··8 min readSampling an Exact Colour, and What Alpha Tells You About Your Cutout
A pixel is smaller than your cursor, which is why naive colour picking goes wrong. Beyond hex and RGB, the alpha readout is the fastest diagnosis available for a cutout that looks off: it distinguishes a binary mask, an uncertain interior, leftover background and real edge contamination in about five seconds.
Industry Guides··10 min readImages for Classroom Worksheets and Teaching Resources
Cutout banks that compound, grayscale that survives a tired photocopier, margin added as padding rather than taken by cropping, and the reason a photograph taken in a classroom should never be uploaded to anyone's server.