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How to improve screenshots and change background color of photorender

How to improve screenshots and change background color of photorender

How to improve screenshots and change background color of photorender

(OP)
If you are one of those people (like me) who are constantly take screen shots of your ProE models to paste into PowerPoint, etc, then I have some good news for you ;)

You can dramatically improve the way your models appear directly onscreen by using Photorender: View -> Model Setup -> Render Control. Click "Render Final Image" on the toolbar that pops up and see the difference! If you do a screen capture now it is going to look so much better.

The default background color for rendered images is black. Since you'll probably be pasting this image into PowerPoint and setting the background transparent, this is not good. To change the background, click "Modify Render Settings" on the rendering toolbar, and then check the "Render Room" box. Close that dialog and click "Modify Room Settings" on the render toolbar. Click on one of the walls and set the color to white, do the same for the ceiling and floor. Now render the final image and you'll have a white background instead of black.

You can of course do much more detailed renderings, but just doing the basic steps above to render the image directly on your screen will make a world of difference in any screenshots you take, and the process takes all of about 15 seconds ;)

I wish someone had told me this a long time ago!

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I am posting this tip after seeing the same question ("how do I change the background color of photorender?") posted in thread554-7122 and thread554-102421 with no answer.

RE: How to improve screenshots and change background color of photorender

Additionaly, instead of making a screen shot of the rendered image, just have the render saved as an output file (jpeg or the like) in the file size you need. It saves you a few steps.

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RE: How to improve screenshots and change background color of photorender

(OP)
Hi 3dlogix, can I ask you a question about that? The reason that I end up using a lot of screen captures instead of outputting to a file is that it has been my experience that whenever I save to a file, the image doesn't look the same as it looked on my screen. Usually the colors are different (lighter), or some of it gets cuts off, etc.

It's probably b/c I've been too lazy to figure out which settings would work right, maybe I was using too low of quality settings. Like I tried it yesterday with a jpg and the image looked really washed out. Probably very easy to fix in photoshop, but I am trying to eliminate as many steps as possible.

RE: How to improve screenshots and change background color of photorender

There is a tool in MS Powerpoint (something like a wand) where you can eliminate the backgound of your picture. But be careful not using the same background color to your parts because you will eliminate them too. And not use blended backgroung.

-Hora

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