MistyLaraCarrara opened this issue on Aug 20, 2009 · 8 posts
MistyLaraCarrara posted Thu, 20 August 2009 at 10:30 AM
Are there advantages to using a .psd file, instead of .png?
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hborre posted Thu, 20 August 2009 at 11:36 AM
The only advantage I can imagine is quick editing in Photoshop while running Poser. PSD files are quite hefty in the file size department and have the potential to bog down Poser performance.
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MistyLaraCarrara posted Thu, 20 August 2009 at 11:41 AM
Huntington/Greenlawn area.
Are you near?
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pjz99 posted Thu, 20 August 2009 at 11:55 AM
I strongly suspect it can't interpret things like adjustment layers or other tricky things you can do with PSD files, so overall IMO it's a lot simpler to use one of the flat image formats.
Faery_Light posted Thu, 20 August 2009 at 12:14 PM
I only use psd when first testing my textures and before making the material poses, then I use the jpeg files.
PSD files get wayyyy too large and will crash Poser if you haven't enough memory.
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lmckenzie posted Thu, 20 August 2009 at 1:37 PM
They've been supported as textures since Poser 4 at least, don't know about 3. I believe that some apps like C4D will allow you to load PSD layers into different material channels, though as pjz99 says I doubt that Poser has the ability natively. BB might be able to find a way to do it but ach the file sizes. If I wanted to view changes while in Poser, I'd probably just export the revisions to .jpg.
Something interesting is the "layered image editor" plugin for DS which will apparently let you use .jpg files and create layers for things like tattoos and then apply them with a MAT file. Sounds a lot simpler than doing it with nodes.
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LostinSpaceman posted Thu, 20 August 2009 at 3:36 PM
Quote - Are there advantages to using a .psd file, instead of .png?
Image nodes can use several formats including PNG, PSD, JPG, TIF, GIF........
hborre posted Thu, 20 August 2009 at 3:40 PM
Medford, further east.