The Unpremultiply tool lets you recover an alpha-unpremultiplied foreground image from an alpha-premultiplied image whose foreground may have been composited on a solid color other than black.

The Unpremultiplied tool takes an alpha-premultiplied image as its input and outputs a corresponding alpha-unpremultiplied image. It assumes the input image consists of a foreground composited over a solid color background; if the background is a color other than black, you can explicitly specify this background color so that the tool can correctly separate the foreground layer from this background and output the foreground layer alone. Optionally, your can ask the tool to guess the background color.

The Unpremultiplied tool has a single parameter:

To unpremultiply an image:

1. Drag the Unpremultiply tool from the Tools tab to the dependency graph in the Schematic view.

   

   The image is unpremultiplied.

   NoteWhen using the Unpremultiply tool, make sure the output image is never processed by a tool that produces incorrect results while operating on an image with unpremultiplied data. Tracking of whether images are stored in premultiplied format or not, does not occur. All tools except this one assumes unpremultiplied data.