Why!? F*cking Why!?

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  1. Aug 10, 2004 at 6:40 AM #1
    666

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    why arent people saving renders with transparent backgrounds?
    if they have transparent backgrounds they are easier to work with!!!>?
     
  2. Aug 10, 2004 at 6:44 AM #2
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  3. Aug 10, 2004 at 6:47 AM #3
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    Because they lose quality. This is why I don't do it. And PNG is always a large file :rolleyes:
     
  4. Aug 10, 2004 at 6:48 AM #4
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    r u n00b or what?
     
  5. Aug 10, 2004 at 6:49 AM #5
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    i save them as GIF, not PNG, and they are still fine, if the image has a colour BG, you have to render it again to get rid of the colour BG
     
  6. Aug 10, 2004 at 6:59 AM #6
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    No you don't. Magic wand the background and press delete. CTRL+right click the layer in the layer pallet window go to select > modify > contract. Make it one pixel. All should be fine ;)

    EDIT: Also, they might look fine, but gifs are never fine. They do lose alot of quality. Going from 16 million colors to 256 colors is a big difference.
     
  7. Aug 10, 2004 at 9:28 AM #7
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    No you don't. Magic wand the background and press delete. CTRL+right click the layer in the layer pallet window go to select > modify > contract. Make it one pixel. All should be fine ;)

    EDIT: Also, they might look fine, but gifs are never fine. They do lose alot of quality. Going from 16 million colors to 256 colors is a big difference. [/b][/quote]
    but if some parts of the render are almost the same color as the bg the magic wand picks up part of the renderand when you press delete it dont look right with a bit ripped out of it
     
  8. Aug 10, 2004 at 10:42 AM #8
    Llamaman

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    Thats why people try to change the background colour of the render depending on what colours are contained in the render.

    The background eraser is also another way of removing the background - its slower than the magic wand but you can remove certain sections of the background and leave others if the magic wand tool is removing too much.
     
  9. Aug 10, 2004 at 10:56 AM #9
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    Just save it as a PNG. Transparent and lots of colors. Its the best of both worlds.
     
  10. Aug 10, 2004 at 4:23 PM #10
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    Yeah, but you can't check your png if you view them on a white bg. Kinda surprises you if you forget it...
     

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