doofis

Thanks all. I am using photoshop elements 5.0, (I should have been more specific earlier). it doesnt have alpha channel edit under the windows drop down menu, though it was cheap like 50 buks, ill be checking out Gimp and dtex for sure!

Thank you both for the comeback, I should mention I have photoshop 5.0 I been allover it for a few years and never found a chanels palete. So I'm still stuck unable to edit alpha chanels, In my case I guess it would be the normal map alpha to control the shinybess, maybe I need the new version of photoshop?...$$$$!

Certain Mods have only an "OILED" skin texture, this is due to the textures alpha channel I understand, however I cant find a tool that allows me to edit the alpha chanel in a given texture to eliminate the shine. of course they are .dds files, though photoshop has a .dds plugin, I'm still quite unable to open any alpha chanels, anyone have info on the proper program i would need so I can EDIT the alpha chanel in a .dds file for Oblivion?