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PREPARING THE BASE

FROM ELEMENTS IMPORT THE RENDER PASSES AND CUT OUT THE PLANES

TO FULL INTEGRATION

WORK IN

PROGRESS

Progress 1:

Improving the 3D renders

Progress 2:

Building the environment

Progress 3:

Final integrated image

01

RENDER IN PASSES

In order to have maximum control of the render, it’s

important to have the render in passes. This means having

at least the beauty pass and the reflection pass. Diffuse and

specular passes are also useful. Here we have provided

passes for the sunlight and bounce light from clouds.

02

IMPORT PASSES INTO PHOTOSHOP

Go to File>Scripts>Load files into stack. Select the

passes for the first plane, EF2000. This will load the passes

into the same PSD document along with the alpha channel.

Group these layers and do the same for the MiG-29. Ctrl/

right-click on the group and Duplicate Group into the EF2000

PSD. Duplicate the alpha channel for the MiG-29 as well.

03

CUT OUT THE PLANES

In the Channels tab,

select the alpha channel for the

first plane. Use Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+I

to invert the selection and delete

the black space from each layer

to isolate the render. On the main

beauty layer, use Layer>Matting>

Remove Black Matte to quickly

remove the black edge from the

render. Repeat this step for the

second plane.

3D AND PHOTOSHOP