I realize this may be a ? more for a photoshop forum but, it seems some zbrusher’s do use photoshop, for finalizing renders. I’m trying ZBC first. I’m just hoping, someone here can shed some light for me. (I’m on zbrush 4 r6, and Ps Cs 6 extended) I modeled a raven… I’ve saved out my render passes in the .psd format. My document size is 1000 x 1000.( the bird was 2" in. at height when I drew the tool on that doc in ZB) I press render and save, everything is beautiful. I can’t wait to get into photoshop, try out this compositing thing, and start blending lights, and shadows, and all the passes. All that sculpting, and hard work is about to pay off…time to put those finishing touches…Then Photoshop> when I file> open >browse > wham! its not the same size as it was in zbrush. Something is amiss? (me ?..certainly.) Rats !! the image is smaller … what? why? (Something to do with the way Zbrush’s document is truly in pixels and loading into PS converts to pixels per in. or dots per in. I don’t know) I have many questions now, I am confused. websites about calculators converting ppi to print size are confusing me too. All I really want is for raven to look like it did in ZB when it was 1000 by 1000, and 2 " in. H …I don’t know how to get the render to load in PS to look like it did in Zbrush. This bird is for a friend who just wants my raven to be 1 1/2 “in. to 2” in. height. I started with the 2 in. version for all the renders. She is going to use it on her website. (In the end I don’t need a background, just my raven tool) i can’t even load the thing. I did the model, because I thought it would challenge me in zbrush and it has been. So if anyone can help me I would so much apppreciate it thank you.
Zbrush doesn’t work with inches. Perhaps you should think in pixels to solve the problem and forget for now the inches. Inches is a resolution for printing that it is related to the density of the of pixels by inch (a density that you don’t mention).
If you have a doc size of 1.000 pixels in Zbrush it never will change when exported. It you drop the image onto the Photoshop doc then it will create a smart object. The smart object disconnect the size of the image from how appears in the doc. The image could have a higher or lower resolution, and the first thing that it gives you is the ability to re size it. This is a feature, if you don’t want it simply open the image in a different doc in Photoshop and copy and paste in your working Photoshop doc. The 1000 pixels for sure will be 1000 pixels.
Another thing you can do is to render the raven at 2000 pixels, drop it in the photoshop canvas as smart object and then resize it to the size you want. Because it is a smart object it will not lose detail and definition and will give you the ability to fine tune exactly the size you want.
Thank you Altea for your answer … Wow it looks like when I opened the image in Ps it was bringing it in at 50 percent so changing that value to 100 percent gave me exactly what I had in ZBrush… hum tiny little thing like that… well thats what I get for being a Ps newbie.