With some help from Google, I experimented with a number of options to remove the background from a sketch render. Thank you for sending these two posts-great reading. And they even made up a Wikipedia article about it.
What a nice touch that writers (and you) keep using the same fictional town. The future of Bozeman is bright, as Zefram Cochrane is due to be born here Hopefully others will chip in with their thoughts for you. so eliminating the background effectively eliminates the beauty of the Sketch render.īecause browsers can control the display of background images anyway, over-riding the web designer's intent - and because you are no doubt creating a dynamic site that reflows the content based on the target device (large computer screen vs tablet vs smart phone) - I would recommend your option "C". but the mask is based on the hard geometry of the actual model, not the overshot lines and wiggles that the Sketch render generates. You can export a Sketch Render to Piranesi, if you client owns that - and the background will be masked. You can play tricks in Photoshop and make a layer mask related to the pixels remaining after a suitable magic wand selection so that you can obtain semi-transparency in the gray areas. you're out of luck other than magic-wanding in Photoshop (your solution A - which has issues with anti-aliasing). But, these will be photo-realistic renders (or the pseudo-pastel post-effects possible in Artlantis).īecause you mention that your friend wants to use the Sketch render. If your architect friend has Artlantis, then an Artlantis rendering can be saved in PSD format with layers. This may be our best last resort option, but we would lose the background texture and the feeling of having sketched directly onto the web page.Īt this point we are lost and need help from the gurus!ĪrchiCAD does not offer layered renders. Rendering the plan on a solid color that is harmonious with the web page. This would create edge problem and not stitch well with the rest of the web page.Ĭ.
Using the web page's background texture as a background image for the Archicad render.
This is very messy for several reasons, such as the varying opacity of the pencil strokes, resulting in many "stuck" or "blended" pixels that are hard to remove.ī. We have considered other options, but they are not very satisfying:Ī. Is there a way to achieve either 1 or 2 within Archicad "out of the box"? but we haven't been able to figure out how! In this day and age, I am guessing that outputting a transparent or layered image from a powerhouse such as Archicad should be a walk in the park. Typical formats that support layers are PDF, PSD and AI, but there are more. That way, in a program such as Illustrator, I can turn the background layer off, and once again output a transparent image that will integrate with the web page. A layered render, where the background has its own layer. Typical formats that support transparency are GIF and PNG, but there are more.Ģ. To render the plans with a transparent background, so that we can place them on the texture of the web page. This means that we will lose the background of the web page under the background of the flat image.ġ. When he renders a plan and saves it for me, so far, whatever format he has choosen, the image has been a flat file (a single layer). If that adds anything to the question, he says the renders he would like to incorporate will use the Sketch engine with the Koh_I_Noor style and Tech pencil. For my side, this means working with a rendered image that either has transparency or that has layers I can turn off in a program such as Illustrator. He would like the renders to appear on the web page's background texture-as though they had been drawn on the page. On the website, my friend would like to feature some renders of plans he has made. The flip side of that is that I don't know anything about Archicad apart from its awesome power, but my friend will be able to understand the replies so together we should be able to figure it out. I am asking a question on his behalf because he doesn't know a tremendous deal about the graphic formats I can use on his website, and we want to make sure the question is phrased correctly.
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I am helping an architect friend update his website.