Glen Ellyn Restaurant

[Pixelcon]

I do think rendering on a black background and using the layer > matting > remove black matte works almost perfectly.

[glorybound]

I've tried that, but it didn't work, or I didn't really understand.

[Nicinus]

Almost funny how many different variations we all come up with to do often the same thing. There should be a forum called Best Practices or something that only discussed workflows and the best way of doing things.

[Pixelcon]

Works for me every time :P

[glorybound]

What do you select in PS before you go to layer > matting > remove black matte

[Nicinus]

I'm sure

I just mean there are so many areas that could use a framework, smartest way to do camera matching, composite 3d on back plates, etc...

[Pixelcon]

I do it all with hotkeys but here's the simplest way of explainging:

Take your alpha pass and apply it to a layer mask on your RGB pass.
Rasterize the layer
Layer > matting > remove black matte.

It's not perfect but it's so close to being perfect it works (for a 5000px render in my case).

[glorybound]

I do it all with hotkeys but here's the simplest way of explainging: Take your alpha pass and apply it to a layer mask on your RGB pass. Rasterize the layer Layer > matting > remove black matte. It's not perfect but it's so close to being perfect it works (for a 5000px render in my case).

Alpha element or the Alpha channel? I'm sending one to Rebus, which is 10k, and I didn't set up an alpha element. And, my VRAY dome is invisible, so I'll need to do this.

[Pixelcon]

Ah ok. In vray 3 you can set your dome to invisible and set it to not affect the alpha channel so you get a proper alpha via the default rendered alpha channel. Much easier.

[glorybound]

The architect liked it and so did the owner, but the owner didn't want to show the cars and person.

[Vizioen]

The architect liked it and so did the owner, but the owner didn't want to show the cars and person.

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It seems to me that the mood of the lighting (low yellowish sun) doesn't match the blue sky very well. It's like something is off. And I can't put my finger on it either but could it be that the size of your brick is too big? It makes the building appear out of scale.

[glorybound]

It seems to me that the mood of the lighting (low yellowish sun) doesn't match the blue sky very well. It's like something is off. And I can't put my finger on it either but could it be that the size of your brick is too big? It makes the building appear out of scale.

I think the brick is correct; the building just has a very strange scale. The sky is the HDRI, but the yellow is way boosted, per the architects request.