THANK YOU! THANK YOU! WOW!

After a little playing i got it all figured out, below is the angel figure i wanted it for..as you can see the transparrent wings are preserved : )

i wanted to post this to help any one else like me that this would help, (i had to understand channels more)

o.k. here it goes: )

to get a similer image to the one below...

1. render in poser on black background

2. then save it in either tiff or photoshop

3. then in the channels palet in photoshop select it

4. then click, select> load selection

5. then go back to the channels palet and close the little eye thing make sure all others are visable.

6. now copy, paste to new canvas and your done : )

I am sure as you get better at this you may be able to shorten steps like not having to make a new canvas.

I am just so pleased at learning this that i felt compeled to share this info : )

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Nice picture. This method can also be used to have a lot of poser figures in one picture. Render foreground figures with the alpha channel and then render some background figures and the background and then put them together.

Well... um... In P5 I simply save as a PNG on the default background and when opened in Photoshop it's transparent... just save as a PSD and done... Much quicker than messing around with alpha channels :)

Silke, that's exactly what I do. I used to use TIF until Ilona gave me the tip about PNG.

well, that's good to know, thx for sharing

Thank you for posting this. I was wondering how it would turn out. Thanks even more for posting how you did it. I will give this a try. Kristta

Well, Thanks again all and thanks for the added PNG tip as I have poser 5 : ))) I love it when I learn something new, it`s like for me my software got an upgrade!

Png files can be saved in propack too. Does anyone know how to combine two pictures in photoshop. If the parrot picture was to have another one as the background how would you do that?

To combine pix in PS you put'em in different layers and then you can move them around (or scale them) as needed. You can also merge layers together.

I actually meant how exactly do you do the merging I am a photoshop newbie

Select the layer you'd like to merge, right click and select merge down, or use the layer menu and click merge down. Also there's usually a merge all in the layers menu. Unzipped

Thank you Unzipped.

No problem. The more I use Photoshop the more amazed I am at it (and I'm still on just version 5!), so it's always nice to share my pathetically limited knowledge of it with others. By the way layers are an amazing thing. Just for fun, take one of your renders, drop it into photoshop and make a couple of duplicate layers of your orignal image. Then play around with the different opacity and blending settings for the layers (hard light, soft light, screen, multiply, darken, dissolve, etc.) - you can get some really useful effects this way easily. Go extra crazy and apply different filters to your layers and see what happens. I'm finding that taking a base skin texture, duplicating a couple of layers of it and then tweaking the duplicate layers to different blending/opacity modes, adjusting the brightness/contrast and saving the result as a new texture can really punch up your skin textures, giving them some more intense depth, definition and variation. Anyway so many toys...so little time! Unzipped

Ummmm.... How do you do it in PSP?

Pretty much the same way as Photoshop. PSP supports layers. You just have to make sure that you create a new layer if you change something, either by copy / paste, or duplicating the layer. I'm not all that familiar with PSP anymore, but I do know their helpfiles were pretty good. Have a look if you can search for layers, that should give you the location and how to work with it. Actually, there may be someone in the 2D forum who can tell you a lot more than we could :) Mind you... I've just started to use Photoshop CS. Wow. There are a LOT of goodies in there now...

Thanks, I got it. Here it is for anyone else who needs it. From what I can tell it doesn't matter the format. Go to Magic Dropper, right click on the color you want transparent. Go to selections then modify and then to transparent color and then click on foreground. From there select the object you do want and go to edit copy then edit paste and voila.

This is a good thread. There should be more like this, about actually using poser or improving the ways that you can use it.

PSP 8 went through a lot of effort to blow Photoshop out of the water. And they did, for about a month... ;D All of the layer commands found in Photoshop are in PSP, they are for the most part done exactly the same way (PSP 8 Even "Looks" like Photoshop now) This is not to say that there aren't differences, just that they are more alike than most people care to admit. (I used PSP exclusively until school "forced" me to buy Photoshop, now I use that almost exclusively) The learning curve between the two is nil, more of "Which menu option is that tool under," than "Dang I can do this in " Something I was curious about in the transparent wing things was... um... wouldn't it have worked to use a background that uses a gradient, and then just set the transparency of the wings? Or was it the background of the finished image she wanted transpaerent?