Photoshop Elements 3: displaying only saved Selection: the problem?

[kenneth_logan]

I've been working on a publication project with a deadline just

passed. Working in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3, I saved a photo

selection and then did further editing on the larger image. I later

tried to save the saved larger-image file as a .tif, but found that

the image that would open, say, into Microsoft Office Picture

Manager was only that of the selected portion. APElements 3 could

open the entire image into itself, though. I wonder whether, if I

submit this image to the newspaper, whatever software program they

import into also will only show the saved selection. The overall

file saves and displays okay as a .jpeg, but I prefer not to

threaten quality by going to .jpeg.

 

Any ideas as to what the problem is? I'd appreciate help. I need to

try to turn this in at about 8 a.m. EST on Thursday, March 9.

[john_houghton]

When you save a selection, you create an alpha channel, which is preserved in the tiff file that you saved. Some programs will ignore the alpha channel when the tiff file is subsequently opened. You can remove the alpha channel by opening the tiff file in Elements and using the Delete Selection option. Or you could open the tiff file in Irfanview, say, and resave to tiff, which will lose the alpha channel.

[kenneth_logan]

I appreciate so much having the response. Deleting the selection worked!