madmitch opened this issue on Dec 02, 2014 · 10 posts
madmitch posted Tue, 02 December 2014 at 4:27 AM
I have been trying out Daz 4.7.
If I just load a figure , say Genesis 2, with the as installed settings and one of the lighting presets, the render to screen produces a background of grey and white squares, which I normally associate with a transparency in Photoshop. However when I save this render and load it into Photoshop the background is black. It would be really nice to retain a transparent background, but failing this a white or pastel colour would be acceptable. The colour of the background in the view port does not appear to influence on the outcome. Can anybody help with this problem?
tparo posted Tue, 02 December 2014 at 4:54 AM
What type are you saving the image as, jpg doesn't give a transparent background you need to save as png or tiff.
madmitch posted Tue, 02 December 2014 at 6:29 AM
Thanks tparo. The png worked but the tiff did not.
I should have thought this one out myself. I think it was the black that threw me. If it had been white I might have realised what was happening.
Oddly, the tiff produced a black background with a halo around the figure, but the miniature icon that DAZ always produces did have a transparent background.
Anyway, thanks for your help
jestmart posted Tue, 02 December 2014 at 10:45 AM
TIFF works for me in Paint Shop Pro.
RHaseltine posted Tue, 02 December 2014 at 4:54 PM
In Photoshop tiff loads with a black background, but there's an alpha channel you can use to select the rendered parts and the colour bleed into the background makes sure there's no haloing once the selection is floated.
radioham posted Tue, 09 December 2014 at 1:56 PM
I had fun and games getting a background image into the render Why did they change how it is done radioham
RHaseltine posted Tue, 09 December 2014 at 3:27 PM
A pane is more accessible than a dialogue box, and I think it was implied that additional features are planned which required the use of a pane.
radioham posted Wed, 10 December 2014 at 3:10 AM
It may have been implied I never seen that... but they never to date released a guide to tell users what the new 4.7 can do and where to find the new parts.. like to add a backdrop you have to open a pane then do two things to get to your backdrops how many have found that out by guess work radioham
RHaseltine posted Wed, 10 December 2014 at 9:55 AM
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/new_features/start
This is a new thing, previous updates have relied on the announcement thread in the forums.
radioham posted Wed, 10 December 2014 at 10:33 AM
Hello Many thanks for the help will have a good read at it...