[snalbandia]

Can anyone help?

I have a rendering in Maxwell Studio 2.5 with Shadows and Alpha render channels turned on. I can see that there are 3 separate channels rendered (Rendering, Alpha, Shadows) but when I save the file as Tif or Png the three channels do not show up in Photoshop, only whichever channel was visible at the time of saving. I have to save each channel separately and combine in Photoshop. isn't the "Embedded" vs "Separate" channels options supposed to combine the Channels into a single file?

Is there a way to save a rendering with all rendered channels in one Photoshop friendly file?

Thanks.

[Bubbaloo]

Did you try EXR? I haven't tried it but I thought that might work. Also, with the Photoshop plug-in, you can bring the MXI straight into PS with all of the channels.

[snalbandia]

Thanks for the reply Babbaloo.

I imported with Photoshop Plugin and all the channels come in as layers (No luck with the exr). I know this is a rookie photoshop question, but any idea's on what would be the proper next steps to overlay the rendering, with shadows, onto a white background?

[Bubbaloo]

It's been a while since I've done that. Hopefully someone else can help you out.

[snalbandia]

Same here, thanks for your help...anyone else with suggestions?

[Mihai]

See this video for some basic info on how to use the MXI Photoshop plugin:
http://think.maxwellrender.com/photosho ... n_314.html

Any shadow pass you have as a layer should be set to Multiply mode. You should also render an alpha so you can cut out your objects from any background.

[snalbandia]

Cool Thanks, that should do it