Hi, A quick question. When I render something in Bryce say a jet with a light blue or green background I save it in PSD format and then I open the image in Photoshop. I use the magic wand to try and select just the image of the jet and move the image of the jet into another image say a Jpeg. Is there a tutorial or does anyone have the step by step process of this because I am fumbling around with it but the entire jet image will not paste over and I am having some trouble trying to select the whole thing. Help please. Thank You

If you have saved the image ie the jet against a solid coloured background then just use the wand to select the background then go to the selection menu & select "inverse".You should then be able to copy the jet & paste it onto a new clear layer.Load your Jpeg or whatever & copy & paste it over your background. A little tip before pasting the Layers together make sure the jet image layer is selected go to the layers menu -matting-defringe.This helps blend the top image with the background.

The magic wand is the wrong tool for this. You need to use the lasso tool or the pen/paths tool. Personally, what I do, and I do a LOT of compositing, make a duplicate layer, make the layer on the bottom invisible, then use the freeform lassoo tool to cut away everything in the picture except the jet. Then select all/edit/copy/paste into your new picture and your composit is ready for transforms, on it's own layer, and your original source picture is untouched

In Bryce: -Render the jet as normal. Dosen't matter on what sort of background. Save this pict. -Switch the render mode to Mask -Select the Jet -Render again (This will be a black and white outline) -Save this as a second pict. In Photoshop: -Open the render -Open the mask render. -Select all of the mask render. -Copy -Paste this into the standard render document. -Select color range, select the black part of the mask render. -Switch to the background layer. -Hide the Mask render layer. -Copy You now have a clean copy of the jet on the clipboard, paste this into your .jpg image. -Trav

Thanks a lot I'll try all of those in the morning thanks again.