Hi all.

First of all, I can hardly believe it's been four years since I was last posting on Renderosity.  The technology has moved on but I'm still using good old Bryce 5.  Why change?  It's still an excellent program but if I had the money I would upgrade.  Oh well...

Anyway, I need some advice on creating masks.  I have Bryce 5 and Adobe Photoshop Elements; is it possible to create masks with this setup?  What I want to do is create a suitable backdrop with Universe Image Creator and then superimpose a model onto it, but in the time since I last tried to do this, I've forgotten how!  If someone could give me some pointers on how to do this with the programs I've got, I would be very thankful.

Secondly, I need some good (preferably free) sci-fi textures to put on my models because I've never mastered the fine art of creating my own - they tend to look a bit amateurish at best, and the worst ones...  No, you just don't want to go there.  Again, I'll be very grateful if anyone can help.  I'll post the results in the gallery, of course.

Thanks again.

I have a tutorial on composting with Photoshop Elements 4, using graphics created in PD Particles. Should work similarly with Bryce or other rendered images.

http://thebest3d.com/pdp/tutorials/pse4/index.html

-Philip
thebest3d.com - beyond digital painting

If you go to the Bryce links in the Backroom there is a link to the free download of  Bryce 5.5 which I think comes with an updated presets folder which has a lot of new stuff in it. If  you want to continue using B5 instead of 5.5 and I remember correctly all I did then was move the presets folder out of B5 to documents or something and copied the presets from in my case B6.1 back in its place, I now have the same base presets in both versions.

Cheers
GG