Cannot save alpha channel as PNG. need help.

Yeah, you have to "apply" the selection to the image (as displayed in the window) for it to work.

PNG24 isn't it.

So you have created your alpha mask (as a separate channel) in the CHANNELS menu

Flip back to the RGB view of your original image, (so the alpha channel mask you've made isn't showing) and click SELECT > LOAD SELECTION ...

Load the "Alpha 1" mask you have made

PRESS DELETE to apply it to the image

Now the image appears ghosty where you intended it, and if you Save it as a PNG, the transparency will be "baked in"

See http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/blrbps_2fwks.htm

Mylennium has assumed that it's the transparency you can't get to save properly...  Is this true?  This alpha channel texture you've added is gauging the transparency?

If not, a screenshot of your layers panel might be helpful here.

-Noel

PNGs have no Alpha, they have genuine transparency, that is their 24bit variety has. Therefore you simply work using PS' native transparency and just enable the transparency options on save. If you're talking about 8bit PNG, then there can ever only be one transparent color and that is handled just the same as in GIFs - you define it in the Save for Web dialog by letting PS know you want to use the native transparency again, a matte color or manually setting any of the palette colors to be tagged as "transpoarent". In any case, none of that requires creating an extra channel. It's simply not relevant for this particular image format.

Mylenium