Ian Wilson Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) Hello, I need to apply an image of a forest of silver birch trees to a glass partition in an office. The trees themselves and leaves need to remain vibrant but the back ground areas around the tree to be clear glass. How do you create a texture that has this sort of transparency on in without loosing the strength of the image? Any help or guidance would be appreciated. Ian Edited February 11, 2021 by klinzey Edit post title 1 Quote Link to comment
Kevin Allen Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 I do this, and have done exactly what you want to do in either Photoshop or VWX. In VWX, I choose the transparency Shader and then use the eyedropper to select the white areas as transparent. In Photoshop, I'll do a similar approach, or create a luminosity mask, save the channel, and then use the channel in the transparency shader. Sometimes it helps to save the file as a TIFF rather than a PSD file. 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted February 11, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 11, 2021 You beat me to it @kevin allen. Exactly that! 1 Quote Link to comment
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