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Originally Posted by Larthak
What I want to achieve is have a transparent PNG file that when put on a black background from an external source (like a website bgcolor), the result would look like the picture above. Which I fear is impossible, since as I've shown in my second edit of the first post, there's multiple ways for Photoshop to render the picture...neither of them really showing the final look of a saved file. It's like the "what you see is what you get" rule doesn't apply here for some reason.
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What I did was:
Black background
Add grayscale brush
Duplicate layer
Layer > Layer Mask > From Transparency
Now brush the color on your new layer (the one with the mask).
Edit: Since the layer mask reduces the opacity of the color layer in some places, you might have to duplicate the color layer a few times or adjust the levels in the layer mask. So it's not a perfect method, but with some tweaking I think you can get what you want.