I'm rendering like a mad man with P6 lately and I have a render question. I know I've seen this asked before, but I can't find it. I'm looking to render my images with a transparent background so I can open in photoshop and dump them in a background with ease. Any help would be fabulous. schtumpy

To get a good edge, render over a black background. Then when you save the rendered image, save it as a .png file. When you open it in a graphic program, it won't have a background. You can leave it as a .png, or resave it as a .psd file if you want.

My own preference is for a White background but black or grey will do just the same!

try saving as a .tiff...it has the same benefit of saving as a .png, only a tiff is a much higher quality...you can compare a png to a jpg and a tiff to a bmp, quality-wise...also, a tiff has an alpha channel...duplicate your original, or background, layer in Photoshop, go into the alpha channel and save it (load selection) then apply it as a mask to the duplicated image layer and delete your original background layer...now you can make your bg any colour you want and your image is nice and crisp...hope I got all that right...hehe ;P Karen

You can save a render as a .psd directly, thus making it a one-step process. As for the background of the render, my suggestion is to take into account the background you are intending to paste it into. If you use the same general shade of background (light, dark, bright green, whatever) your blend will be cleaner.