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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Revit Tip - Export Rendered Images Without a Background

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For some of you this might be common knowledge but it is a great tip to keep in mind when rendering.  If you are constantly rendering with a white background and Photo-shopping the building into a site image or an image of the sky by using that dreadful magic wand or the polygon selector... STOP NOW!

All you have to do it export the rendered image (if it is rendered with a white background) as a .PNG file.  Open it in Photoshop and you will see the image has already been cropped and cleaned up and ready for your background image.

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Luke, over at What Revit Wants, dives further into this and explains how exporting to a TIFF file allows for an easy separation between the background and the model elements. This is very useful if you rendered with a background image or a sky, etc...

Click here to check out Luke's post...
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JP Bernier · 442 weeks ago

What if you are using a different program other than Photoshop? I use Paint.net and the Revit export process (both .png and .tiff) still includes the background on the same layer. I've read that older versions of Revit have a check box for "Alpha Channel" to assist with transparency, but it is not included in my version of Revit Architecture 2016. Is using Adobe products really the only way to do this?

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