I have a scene that I created in C4d and was wanting to save the file as a rendered file and then export it to Photoshop to add addition text and final color adjustments.  Any ideas as to how I would do this would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

brittonbloom@yahoo.com

If it's just a still image, and all you're going to do is add text and adjust  color and density (or even more complex editing and compositing - doesn't matter), just save it out as any image format you want to work in (TIF, JPG, BMP, etc.).

Open Photoshop, open the image file, and go crazy with it.

If you're talking about moving animation - then you might wanna export it for postwork in After Effects.

If you're talking about masking, activate Z-Depth for your camera and well as the options for Effects in the render tabs.

Hope this helps-
-Lew ;-)

Great...just what I was looking for.And in fact, I was wondering about exporting animation, so your answer was above and beyond.
I appreciate the info...
Britton

I suggest exporting scenes as TIFF files at 300 DPI. This gives you the best format to work with.

I would only export at 300 DPI if you really need to print the final postworked image. Otherwise you are only wasting space on your hard drive.

Not really. If you want to do post in photoshop 300 dpi makes it much more effective. Once any post is done you can always delete the original 300 dpi. The higher the resolution you can work with in photoshop the easier the work.

Resolution is pixel count - 2400x300 pixels for example - and not dpi. It doesn't matter what dpi you set it to - you can change that in PS (or your image editing app of choice).

2400x3000 pixels is the exact same document at 10dpi or 600dpi.

Setting 2400x3000 at 300dpi makes the real world size 8x10 inches for printing for publication (even though most printers only actually print 150 lines per inch - and you can set it to 150dpi for printing on your inkjet printer, or through a photo lab, and it becomes a 16x20 in real world dimensions).

This is why many publications tell you the pixel count they desire and don't even mention the dpi setting for you to choose. You can change that "setting" in post (as it affects nothing).

-Lew ;-)