When I take my rendered .pct files from bryce and open them in photoshop, i seem to lose brightness and clarity... Why is this happening? Up until now I've just adjusted the image's brightness, but that isn't giving me quite the results I want. Help please! Cory BS

I don't know if this is the problem,but it could be: I don't know what colordepth your .pct is, but if it's 32bit then that could cause the problem. Bryce renders at 24 bit and if you change 24-bit RGB to 32-bit CMYK the colors change a little. Photoshop has a color algorithm build in that changes what you see on screen. It's very handy when you convert 24-bit to 32-bit images, because the output always is exactly the same on screen. If bryce changes the colordepth, you get differences in the colors and brightness.

I was about to ask a very similar question, so I guess I'll ask it here. Is it possible to make bryce render in cmyk? And if so, How?

Assuming same color depth and color mode, there should be no difference in color if the monitor is calibrated correctly. Nor should there be any changes in clarity if by clarity you mean contrast and brightness. Have you color calibrated your monitor? Some file formats take on different sharpness characteristics often times attributed to the type of compression used if any. For instance, the same image when viewed as a jpeg may seem less sharp than when viewed as tiff or bmp depending on the extent of compression.

Hi I was told by my lady (who uses photoshop and illustrator all day and every day at work) that she has some problems when files are imported in different formats. She suggests using tif as there are less problems then save them from photoshops as whatever you what after. just my 2 pence my Selina pic looks odd in the gallery due to compression problems between PSP and Photoshop Dave

I think the industry standard is to save in tiff, but many programs such as Poser save in psd. Any thoughts on that?

i agree with the saving in tiff. yees it is a relatively large file but at least you will save the images real look... savig in psd (to me) seemed to have little difference from saving in tiff... maybe ther is try to check it out. another is that its also better to edit in RGB because it takes up little memory that CMYK, only convert when your done with the editing my 2 cents

Tiff is the industry standard for printing. If you want to use all kinds of professional compositing things you can also use the Pixar image format (or similar). It has some interesting features, like support Z-depth channels and things like that though. But I've got no idea how that works with colors.

I save as .bmp from Bryce and then convert to .jpg, .psd, whatever from Photoshop. Works for me.

Photoshop does some horrors if you have a partially calibrated printer in your system and you save as tiff (or any other CMYK format with printer support) trust me, I've been there. :-( I would go with transferring from bryce to pshop in .BMP format as well

bmp here too. How about those bryce jpegs....heh heh (Bryce makes truely horrid jpegs)