From the course: Sculpting a Creature with ZBrush and Photoshop

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Opening renders in Photoshop

Opening renders in Photoshop

From the course: Sculpting a Creature with ZBrush and Photoshop

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Opening renders in Photoshop

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- Photoshop is a fantastic compositing tool. In this video, I will show you how to bring your renders into Photoshop and get them positioned correctly. Okay, so, we're in Photoshop, and as you can see, to the right of the screen, we've got our layers already stacked up, and let me show you how I did that real quick. If you go into File and Place Embedded, let's go ahead and find our HDRI render, and hit the Place button, and what that does is it sets it perfectly over the place of everything else. You could also do a Shift Drag from a Windows Explorer. If you have Windows Explorer open, you can hold down Shift Drag and drag all your files in at once. I just find that doing it manually is a little bit more concise for me. So, using the Place Embedded and hitting the Enter button will bring in your renders, and now we need to look at organizing and why we put certain layers in certain areas. So I've got a pretty good stack here, and the way I organize this is there will be layers that…

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