Removing Parts

I'm a novice skinner and was wondering how do you remove parts of the skin?

Basically, I want to remove part of the Bloodmage's hood/crown thing from his clothing.

in photoshop: by editind alpha channels

I don't have any "Alpha" channels. It just has: RGB, Red, Green, and Blue.

alpha channels are in TGA

It is a .tga format, but I don't see Alpha channels... :(

Here's a pic:

I think you need this little plug-in

Thanks a lot to both of you. :D

actually, that can be done with simple mdl editing. just import these two files into your map as-is. then use the model WITHOUT the "_portrait" after it for your model.

if you dont want to use them and just want to get some skinning xperience in, dont use them, but theyre here if you need them.

-flames'