Camera background color when rendering

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# 1 05-04-2013 , 02:27 PM

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Camera background color when rendering

So I was following this tutorial
https://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/aut...ing-mentalray/

And on step 22 it says I can change my camera background color which I did and did some renders and they looks awesome instead of the pitch black default color. When I save out the render it reverts to black though, in the saved render image.

What gives?

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# 2 05-04-2013 , 04:07 PM

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check the alpha chan of the rendered image user added image

just bring the saved render into PS and change the bg color.

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# 3 08-04-2013 , 03:34 PM

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how would i check the alpha?
i use PS cs4

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# 4 25-04-2013 , 03:42 AM

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hello?........

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# 5 25-04-2013 , 03:46 AM

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It's the white and grey circle in the render view in maya. In PS it's in the channels palette.

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# 6 25-04-2013 , 11:03 AM

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in ps you go : "Select" -> "Load Selection" -> in the channel tab, choose "Alpha 1" (that's if you've opened your layer, otherwise the alpha channel will be default) -> hit "OK" user added image

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