C4D's

Sev · **Posted:** January 25th, 2008, 12:28 am

How exactly do I use them #-o

I want to use them but I don't know how. Do I need to download them as brushes or something because when I download them they're just images without a transparent background and when I try to make them tranparent I mess u[p

Adbot · **Posted:** January 25th, 2008, 12:28 am

Hairy Munky · **Posted:** January 25th, 2008, 7:27 am

They're not meant to be transparent, just save the C4D and paste it onto your sig, resize it (if you want) and set the layer mode to overlay/lighten only/screen etc and change the opacity to suit what you want.
I find it hard to find C4Ds that fit most of the time, but if you find one that works it can really compliment your sig.

Humus · **Posted:** January 25th, 2008, 9:25 am

Hairy Munky wrote:

They're not meant to be transparent, just save the C4D and paste it onto your sig, resize it (if you want) and set the layer mode to overlay/lighten only/screen etc and change the opacity to suit what you want.
I find it hard to find C4Ds that fit most of the time, but if you find one that works it can really compliment your sig.

Every single C4D I've ever downloaded has had a transparent background... :-k

All these should be transparent if you save them.

Neo 9001 · **Posted:** January 25th, 2008, 1:24 pm

Sev wrote:

How exactly do I use them #-o

I want to use them but I don't know how. Do I need to download them as brushes or something because when I download them they're just images without a transparent background and when I try to make them tranparent I mess u[p

For black backgrounds, use screen, or lighten, or something from that category. The black just disappears (black won't make anything lighter, after all). (more common in my experience)

White backgrounds = darken.

Chief Snake · **Posted:** January 25th, 2008, 9:16 pm

Humus wrote:

Hairy Munky wrote:

They're not meant to be transparent, just save the C4D and paste it onto your sig, resize it (if you want) and set the layer mode to overlay/lighten only/screen etc and change the opacity to suit what you want.
I find it hard to find C4Ds that fit most of the time, but if you find one that works it can really compliment your sig.

Every single C4D I've ever downloaded has had a transparent background... :-k

All these should be transparent if you save them.

Yeah that's what he means - if you copy and paste something with a transparent background into Photoshop, the background turns black. In order to retain its transparency, you need to save the C4D to your hard drive and then open it in Photoshop.

Sev · **Posted:** January 25th, 2008, 10:22 pm

I never copy and paste. I downloaded some of deviantArt and they didn't have tranparent background

Adbot · **Posted:** January 25th, 2008, 10:22 pm

Hairy Munky · **Posted:** January 26th, 2008, 5:32 am

http://planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=1

Planetrenders has transparent C4Ds, but as I said, if it's on a black or white background it shouldn't make much of a difference.