Hello Snakey, in fact I do not like the combination of 3D and photo so much, it always looks a bit faked for me. But when I'm in need of a photographed background (sky, tapestry, wall-carpets...) which I cannot add by using Props or objects I use Valentina's method most of the time: By saving the rendered picture as a tif (never tried psd, but this should work similar) and than going to Photoshop-->select-->load selection-->Alpha 1 and then select-->inverse selection. This seperates the figure from the background color. By the way: Choose a color that differs clearly from figure, clothes, hair and shadows. That prevents you from cutting off hair, laces etc. - White works fine for me most of the time.

Sometimes you will find some background colored pixels left around your figure. To get rid of them try to expand your background-selection for at least one pixel, then go to inverse, that should help. You can read more about the whole procedure at Awful Soul's forum:
http://www.awfulsoul.com/asforum/viewtopic.php?t=322
...and their english is a lot better than mine ;o)

Another way of adding a photo and a bit of depth is the Cyclorama, available at DAZ and there is a likewise item at RDNA as far as I know. If you want to add landscapes or photostudio-backgrounds you may want to give these a try.

Good luck with your trials!

Meike Edited for making the link work

Message edited on: 09/04/2005 17:26

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