Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24972506-20141026202255/@comment-24577221-20141028060710

56 Pontiac wrote: Well, poop. I got the tiger stripes OK, but the transparent background went away, replaced by some translucent orangish tinted blocks. I did not do layering like you have mentioned, just used the brush to paint on the stripes (which looked pretty darn good IMHO).

Any suggestions? (I can and will try again) Select a region of her body; use the brightness/contrast tool to change that region to black. You may have to use that tool more than once to completely change the region. You could try other schemes such as reducing the colour saturation, which would leave you with grey, which you could then darken -- that could leave you with shading on that region, which might make it look better.

The important thing is that if you do it that way, you won't affect the transparency.