MY WORK IS TRAPPED INSIDE DAZ3D. HOW DO I GET IT OUT?
chris_340dad5b
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The Daz Photoshop Bridge stopped working mid-project.I have asked repeatedly for help and nobody has any solid suggestions and it's been two months since I heard from the "technical staff" at DAZ, who only asked when in the process did it fail, so I must live with the fact that my beautiful renders will not port naturally to Photoshop. So I ask the question -- what is the absolute best way to get the highest quality TIFF or JPG out of Daz3d if you do not use the photoshop bridge?
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The Daz Photoshop Bridge stopped working mid-project.I have asked repeatedly for help and nobody has any solid suggestions and it's been two months since I heard from the "technical staff" at DAZ, who only asked when in the process did it fail, so I must live with the fact that my beautiful renders will not port naturally to Photoshop. So I ask the question -- what is the absolute best way to get the highest quality TIFF or JPG out of Daz3d if you do not use the photoshop bridge?
Other than the bridge would allow you to open the image in Photoshop, I don't see why rendering and saving an image in Studio and then opening in Photoshop (or other image editor) would be any less quality. I always saw the bridge as a mere convenience.
Do not use JPG. Use PNG.
From my PoV and exp., PNG format is good enough for 99.5+% cases..
100% agree with Cris and Rafael...
Merged identical threads.
When I finish a render inside DAZ and save it, the results are NOWHERE near as good as the basic output of the DAZ Photoshop Bridge which looks SO sharp and SO clear, I am stunned by the results. But for some damn reason, as soon as I try to use the bridge, I get this "Cannot UpdateScene" message.
What image format? It may be your colour profile settings, if opening an untagged file and sending a file over the bridge are handled in different ways.
Let me explain the workflow I have used successfully since the Photoshop Bridge was created over a decade ago (I used it with Daz 3, all versions.)
1. I finish assembling and lighting my scene in Daz 4.21. Now I want to port off to Photoshop.
2. I go to File>Send to>Initialize Photoshop 3d Bridge. I don't use the 3dBridge camera which pops up. I chooses the camera I want to use..
3. I open Phostshop CS6 64-bit.
5. I choose File>Automate>Daz Studio 3d Bridge. The menu pops up in the upper left.
6. I choose Preview Image. I set the width and height and select "Save to New Layer."
7. The render begins. I can switch back to DAZ3d and follow the render. When it finishes (or I finish it manually) after a few minutes an AMAZINGLY CLEAR copy of the render pops into Photoshop.
BUT FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS
Go back to step 6. When I press "Save to New Layer" a white empty page pops up on the screen and a box entitled Daz Studio Bridge Error show the message Unable to UpdateScene in Daz Studio and that's it. Nothing else ever happens.
I wiped the computer cack to original install, I installed a new version of Windows 11 AND Daz 4.21 AND the Photoshop Bridge. I have tried it in 32 bit with 32-bit versions and NOTHING ELSE ever happens.
Oh, and the GTX 2060 Nvidia board is woking fine. The computer is working fine.
It's as if I have been cursed.
while I use png, if I render something fancy like an 8K 360 panorama with the spherical lens I save it as tiff to convert to Radiance HDR format or exr in Gimp so imagine Photoshop it would be the same
You shouldn't have to re-install Windows just to fix a bridge issue.
In Daz Studio, if you click Edit -> Preferences -> Bridges, this should show you the path to your bridge executable.
I always had a issue with the ZBrush bridge, since it hid the path, so wasn't configurable, but I do see some others like Bryce and Hexagon, that do show the path, and are configurable. If the bridge path isn't visible or configurable, then it's a poorly designed bridge, imho.
Seven193, the photoshop bridge does not show up in Edit>Preferences>Bridges. It is installed correctly as it launches from both directions but somehow. when I try to get ti to work, it cannot tell the render to commence.
Does the bridge menu run in Photoshop or Daz Studio? If it runs in Photoshop, then, I guess you won't find any settings in Daz Studio. Does the bridge let you configure it or see any paths from the Photoshop side?
None of the controls will result in anything other than "Cannot UpdateScene in Daz Studio from the Photoshop side.
Did you update Photoshop recently? Probably an update broke something.
Again, the workaround might be to just render it out from DAZ first then opening the render in PS (noting the same resolution of both projects).
I would completely forget the DAZ 3d Bridge to Photoshop except for the fact that the renders are spectaular. Crisp, sharp and oh so much better resolution that I have ever achieved just rendering in DAZ, saving as a tiff or a jpg and then opening in Photoshop. It has always been my process. And the results are magnificent.
The image resolution will not be different, compression may affect it and the treatment of the lack of a colour profile may also be an issue (check your settings for missing profiles in the Photoshop Preferences).