Hmmm, this whole concept of Alpha planes is interesting. I haven't used it and not sure what its purpose is other than using it to make things transparent. Maybe it can be applied somehow to what I'm trying to achieve which I describe below.

 Can Vue 6 Pro output a layered file where a character can be separated from its 2d background (the alpha plane technique) without having to cut it out in photoshop?

In other words, I'm trying to put a Poser character, rendered in Vue onto a 2d background. Using the alpha plane option renders the 2d background and the poser character into one image but does not allow me to the option of having them in distinct photoshop-type layers.

Here's the problem that I'm trying to solve:

Take a poser character, render her with a solid colored background so that I can later take out that background in photoshop (which produces jaggedy edges that need to be smoothed)  and then put her on top of a 2d background.

Now, if I have her hand with fingers spread apart (or hair strands) then taking out that colored background becomes quite difficult and reduces the quality of the character image.

And in Vue 6 Pro there is no option to save as a png file, so is there a way to cleanly do this in Vue rather than photoshop so that I end up with a character that has no background attached to it in Vue's export?  If not, then I would have to carefully position the alpha plane in vue so that it would not need any editing in photoshop.

Is the alpha plane suggestion the best way to do this?

You see, I'm trying to merge the character with the 2d background but not until they are in perfect position with one another and sometimes I need to remove portions of the character so that she looks like she's embedded in the 2d image as if she were sticking her head out from behind a tree.

Sorry for the verbosity. I'm just trying to make it clear what I am needing to do.

Thanks.

Michael