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How to take all of the Background/Ground away? SOLVED!

squirtsquirt Posts: 170
edited November 2018 in The Commons

Hello Daz Gurus

I was curious how to take away all of the background (ground included) so that the only thing you are left with is the figure itself?   That way the figure can be transported to Photoshop for collaging.. Currently I keep getting a background color that winds up in the figure's hair. Then I'd have to spend hours brushing out all of the color trapped in the hair strands.

As always, I appreciat you all's help.

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  • Carola OCarola O Posts: 3,857

    If you are using Iray when rendering, turn off Draw Dome Possible also Draw Ground, but I think that is only if you want to turn off shadows to a degree, I may remember wrong though.

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,316

    uncheck 'visible in render'. Pretty sure it's in the Display section of the parameters tab.

  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,533
    squirt said:

    Hello Daz Gurus

    I was curious how to take away all of the background (ground included) so that the only thing you are left with is the figure itself?   That way the figure can be transported to Photoshop for collaging.. Currently I keep getting a background color that winds up in the figure's hair. Then I'd have to spend hours brushing out all of the color trapped in the hair strands.

    As always, I appreciat you all's help.

    In Iray set Draw Ground to off (unless you want ground shadows), if using a HDRi turn Drawn Dome to Off, render and save as a png.

  • squirtsquirt Posts: 170

    uncheck 'visible in render'. Pretty sure it's in the Display section of the parameters tab.

    All of the other suggestions just leave a black  background which gives me the color black to contend with as puts me back at square one... 

    Where is this Displace section yo uare talking about?   I'll try that next.

     

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,316

    You  have to have the background item you want to turn off selected in the scene tab first.

    Plus, I don't know how it works in Iray. I only use 3DL.

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  • squirtsquirt Posts: 170
    edited November 2018

    You  have to have the background item you want to turn off selected in the scene tab first.

    Plus, I don't know how it works in Iray. I only use 3DL.

    Uhm.. What version of Daz are you using because I don't see those options.

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  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,316
    edited November 2018

    DS 4.10.123

    Note: I just opened up a scene and tossed the old MilEnvironment into it an d then selected that. So the first item in the list 'Environment' is the name of the item.

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  • squirtsquirt Posts: 170
    edited November 2018

    DS 4.10.123

    Note: I just opened up a scene and tossed the old MilEnvironment into it an d then selected that. So the first item in the list 'Environment' is the name of the item.

    As you can see above.. I don't have those options and I'm using the same verson as  you are it would appear.

     

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  • squirtsquirt Posts: 170

    Anyone else have any ideas?

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,259

    Not really sure what the problem is. Here's a character with hair, saved as PNG. Imported into photoshop the background is transparent so I can change the background color as I like.

     

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  • squirtsquirt Posts: 170
    edited November 2018

    Not really sure what the problem is. Here's a character with hair, saved as PNG. Imported into photoshop the background is transparent so I can change the background color as I like.

     

    Ok, So just save as a PNG file.. Who would have thought that it would be that easy???

     

    He, he, thanks! 

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,259
    edited November 2018
    squirt said:
    Taoz said:

    Not really sure what the problem is. Here's a character with hair, saved as PNG. Imported into photoshop the background is transparent so I can change the background color as I like.

     

    The problem is that I don't know how to do it.    How do you save it as a PNG.. What are the steps?

    Render in a separate window, there is a button to the right of the file name field where you can select file format when you save.

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,843
    edited November 2018
    squirt said:
    Taoz said:

    Not really sure what the problem is. Here's a character with hair, saved as PNG. Imported into photoshop the background is transparent so I can change the background color as I like.

     

    The problem is that I don't know how to do it.    How do you save it as a PNG.. What are the steps?

    And do the Draw Ground and Dray Sky have to be turned off?  Little things like that.

    When you go to save your render, there is a drop down box to select file type. .PNG saves it with a transparent background as long as you don't have an object or HDRI in the background

    edit: Taoz beat me to it.

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  • squirtsquirt Posts: 170

     

    Taoz said:
    squirt said:
    Taoz said:

    Not really sure what the problem is. Here's a character with hair, saved as PNG. Imported into photoshop the background is transparent so I can change the background color as I like.

     

    The problem is that I don't know how to do it.    How do you save it as a PNG.. What are the steps?

    Render in a separate window, there is a button to the right of the file name field where you can select file format when you save.

    Thank you!

  • squirtsquirt Posts: 170
    FSMCDesigns said:
    squirt said:
    Taoz said:

    Not really sure what the problem is. Here's a character with hair, saved as PNG. Imported into photoshop the background is transparent so I can change the background color as I like.

     

    The problem is that I don't know how to do it.    How do you save it as a PNG.. What are the steps?

    And do the Draw Ground and Dray Sky have to be turned off?  Little things like that.

    When you go to save your render, there is a drop down box to select file type. .PNG saves it with a transparent background as long as you don't have an object or HDRI in the background

    edit: Taoz beat me to it.

    Thank you !

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