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Subject: Having trouble rendering out to transparent background for compositing

Pedrith opened this issue on Jun 02, 2006 · 6 posts
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Pedrith ( ) posted Fri, 02 June 2006 at 8:35 PM · edited Sat, 25 January 2025 at 12:50 PM

Hi. I'm trying to render out to a transparent background. I selected the render alpha channel, and tried all of the options. I even tried it as a gif, but the box to select transparency to white or black was not enabled. I am very new to Carrara and don;t understand what i am doing wrong. I plan to composite with Adobe Photoshop Elements 3. I'm running a G5 (non intel) mac with 2 gigs ram. Please help. Thanks. David

Dennis445 ( ) posted Fri, 02 June 2006 at 9:03 PM

Try saving as a psd or tif that sould do it for you.

Pedrith ( ) posted Fri, 02 June 2006 at 9:26 PM

I did try saving it as a psd, but when i opened it in photoshop elements, I got only the full image as a background layer. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but shouldn't this render out the image in layers? David

ren_mem ( ) posted Fri, 02 June 2006 at 9:45 PM

try tif. psd support is old.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.

Dennis445 ( ) posted Fri, 02 June 2006 at 9:55 PM

Pedrith you need to load the mask in Elements 3, ( click - select - load selection)

Pedrith ( ) posted Sat, 03 June 2006 at 12:37 PM

Thanks. That work like a charm. David :)

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