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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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

Cool Thanks, that should do it