- Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:43 pm
#279781
So I've rendered with an alpha channel (sky comes out black).
Now I want to use Gimp to add a background image. I've been through the Gimp tutorials and I'm going nowhere fast.
Can anyone show me a tutorial that specifically outlines how to use Gimp to add a background image that looks acceptable (not like garbage)?
This is week 3 of trying to add an acceptable background image to my renderings, I've got clients breathing down my neck and am making no money while I fiddle with this stuff. I'm very disappointed that Maxwell Studio doesn't have an intuitive means to apply background images. Yes, I've upgraded to 1.7.1 (as 1.6 was overriding sky channels that were not disabled with a physical sky). Now I've bought dosch skies only to find that, though the hdr image may have a nice blue sky color, the sky color becomes washed out in the rendering. I try to adjust intensity, ozone etc. and nothing comes out looking even 50% realistic.
On the verge of just going over to Cinema 4-D with all this time and money that I'm wasting.
-Jeremy
Now I want to use Gimp to add a background image. I've been through the Gimp tutorials and I'm going nowhere fast.
Can anyone show me a tutorial that specifically outlines how to use Gimp to add a background image that looks acceptable (not like garbage)?
This is week 3 of trying to add an acceptable background image to my renderings, I've got clients breathing down my neck and am making no money while I fiddle with this stuff. I'm very disappointed that Maxwell Studio doesn't have an intuitive means to apply background images. Yes, I've upgraded to 1.7.1 (as 1.6 was overriding sky channels that were not disabled with a physical sky). Now I've bought dosch skies only to find that, though the hdr image may have a nice blue sky color, the sky color becomes washed out in the rendering. I try to adjust intensity, ozone etc. and nothing comes out looking even 50% realistic.
On the verge of just going over to Cinema 4-D with all this time and money that I'm wasting.
-Jeremy