{"id":26035,"date":"2020-02-18T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=26035"},"modified":"2020-02-04T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:44:04","slug":"solidworks-tech-tip-using-a-transparent-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/02\/solidworks-tech-tip-using-a-transparent-background.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip &#8211; Using a Transparent Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although SOLIDWORKS Visualize has many options to edit the background of your scene, sometimes you just want it to be transparent. This is incredibly useful, especially when combined with a photo editor such as Photoshop to add your render to an existing image. This happens all the time when creating marketing imagery for websites. In this week\u2019s Visualize Quick Tip, we\u2019ll show you how to output an image with a transparent background and explain why this can be useful to your workflow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6XmoWDFh-Ks\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLiKqXuECiKNIakhZ87GzttyJbNDkt-_mZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube playlist<\/a> more helpful Visualize videos!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/community\/visualize\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USE THE VISUALIZE FORUM<\/a> to connect with the global Visualize Community for self-help support with common questions. Don\u2019t forget to share your Visualize images and animations on <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/thread\/111941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this <\/a>Forum thread!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to use a transparent background to add your renders on top of an existing image or background.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/02\/solidworks-tech-tip-using-a-transparent-background.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":26034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1577],"tags":[1041],"class_list":["post-26035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks-visualize","tag-visualize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26037,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035\/revisions\/26037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}