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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      You can control the transparency of both the photo and model if the photo is imported as a Match Photo. Go to the Edit tab of the Styles dialog box, click on the blue cube icon and look at the bottom of the box. There are sliders for controlling transparency. You can also choose to hide the model and or the photo via tick boxes.

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      • mitcorbM Offline
        mitcorb
        last edited by

        Ahh, sooo... I'm not that crazy. Just sorta crazy.

        I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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        • T Offline
          thelandscaper
          last edited by

          Hey guys thaks for the help!! This is what I got at the begining.....


          foto.jpg

          "If life brings you lemons, get salt, Tequila and call me over"

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          • T Offline
            thelandscaper
            last edited by

            And as you can see... I figure it now, thanks to you haha.... I just un-select the "foregroung photo" box on the edit option for the styles and Voala! the materials and faces that I needed showed up!
            So that's my result... as you can see.... is ok....

            Thanks a lot!!!
            I will not kill myself this time! lol


            Prueba #1.jpg

            "If life brings you lemons, get salt, Tequila and call me over"

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            • charly2008C Offline
              charly2008
              last edited by

              Hi,

              In relation to photo match, I also consider myself a beginner. I've tried to export the model, with the matched photo from David, to Kerkythea. But in Kerkythea only the model is shown without the matched photo. What am I doing wrong?

              Charly


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              He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                Nothing. Kerky cannot import the background photo. What you can do now is to render the image and render and alpha mask and combine them in an image editor - or import the background image as such into Kerkythea.

                Gai...

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                • charly2008C Offline
                  charly2008
                  last edited by

                  Hi Gaieus,

                  thanks for the information. That with the alpha mask, I have also not yet understood properly. The technique with the alpha mask, I have to study in detail.

                  Charly

                  He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    OK, sorry, it is not called "aplha" mask just mask. See below. Basically it will render a B&W contour image you can use in PS to "mask" the black background out to be transparent.

                    Also, you can set a static image for the background, too.


                    Mask.png


                    BackgroundImage.png

                    Gai...

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                    • dereiD Offline
                      derei
                      last edited by

                      @charly2008 said:

                      The technique with the alpha mask, I have to study in detail.

                      Charly

                      Alpha Mask is just a black image which have white areas representing the area occupied by object(s) in model. You will use it in a image editor to blend the model into a image, as Gaieus said.

                      See below the steps of a work I had to do long time ago:


                      original image, used to photomatch the model and also, to blend with rendered image.


                      rendered image, positon photomatched to fit in image (see last image)


                      alpha image. It can be used as alpha mask in Photoshop for blending.


                      composed image. Actually, it needed a little more work, not just the alpha mask, because of the bottom part of rendering, that I had to delete.

                      DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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                      • charly2008C Offline
                        charly2008
                        last edited by

                        Gaieus and dereeei,

                        thanks again for your efforts. I'm always delighted by the friendly help in the forum. I'll check it yet again in peace.

                        Charly

                        He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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