I stand corrected as I have learned a lot more about this. They are 
premultiplied. Even though I got my feature working using libTiff, I like Jens 
idea of just walking thru the alpha data and manually setting the values. This 
would save having yet another lib linked in and seems to be a cleaner path.

Todd


On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote:

> Are the pixels "not there," or are they premultiplied? 
> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing>
> 
>       — F
> 
> On 26 Jan 2012, at 8:21 PM, Todd Freese wrote:
> 
>> The issue is that it only loads the pixels that are allowed by the alpha. 
>> Almost no graphic program does this. It should load "all" the pixels and 
>> give you the option of using the alpha if needed. Another words, there is no 
>> way to just get the full image.
> 
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