Quote - Hi all, I am creating a lot of 3d illustrations in Poser for use in Photoshop and ultimately for web and print. Currently my workflow is render over a background or color, but I sure would like to render onto a transparent layer, or figure out hot to export a render in Poser so I can just drag it into a Photoshop layer and not have to worry about edge editing. How do you all do it? thx...

I render over "Black" and then save as a .png.  .png files are "lossless" and when saved in Poser have a trasparent alpha channel so when opened into your graphic program has "no background" to worry about.

Rendering over black will prevent an edge border of your background colour, that results from automatic antialising.  

A couple of years ago I was having terrible issues with an ugly grey (my render background) border around the edges of my figure.  It turns out that it was the result of antialising.  It was suggested to me to render over a black background.  That solved my ugly border problem.  The black still produces an antialis border, but it looks more  like a shadow than a border.

My only exception to this rule is if I'm rendering something that is mostly white IE: wedding dress.  Then I notice the black border. So in those cases I render over white and any antialing that happens is the colour of the dress so it's not noticable.

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