Photoshop Tutorial: How to add backgound image onto a rendered scene

Below is a quick tutorial I made on how to add background image onto a rendered scene in photoshop. This could be helpful to add context into ur renders and exisiting site conditions.

Basically, when you render your image out from rendering softwares such as 3dsmax or through rendering plugins within sketchup, save your image as .PNG file or .TGA file as it removes the alpha channel automatically.

However, some rendering programs such as Podium is able to save as .PNG file but not able to remove the alpha channel. Well for me it didn't work when I opened up the .png file in photoshop. Therefore, I had to remove the background manually and add a new background image as shown in the video below:

The video can be downloaded here for better quality viewing: http://www.mediafire.com/?ut82560645ea252

Photoshop CS5 Sneak Preview Feature

A glimpse on CS5 feature adobe is working on:

Online Photoshop Express

Below is a video showing a demonstration on the new online based photoshop called photoshop express which will be launched soon. This particular application will fully be a flash-based image editior and will run inside a web browser.

The application focusses at consumers rather than proffesional developers however; it would be a faster and a much efficient way in editing images online especially when you using internet cafes while traveling. Im just not sure about the speed due to the application being all flash-based.

Photoshop CS3's photomerge feature

Photoshop CS3 has a feature which creates panoramic views. The new photomerge feature combines several photographs into one continuous image. It automatically stitches them together to create panoramic views. You can also create interactive panoramic views.

I think this feature is available in CS2 and CS to some extent.

To view a video tutorial on how to use the photomerge feature on CS3 click here.