Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Finishing Off the Matte
You can use either the UV/Image Editor or the Nodes window itself to look at viewer output. By clicking the
Backdrop option in the Nodes window header and selecting the View Alpha option, you can see the results of
the composite directly in that window, as shown in
Figure 9-77
. The V key and Alt+V hotkey combination,
respectively, allow you to zoom this backdrop out and in.
Figure 9-77
Viewing the composite as a backdrop
You can use the composited image as the foreground to a more involved scene in the compositor by intro-
ducing a background, as shown in
Figure 9-78
(and repeated in color in the topic's color insert). The image file
is a sky map created by BlenderArtists.org member M@dcow and freely available at
http://blenderartists.org/
forum
. You'll find the
sky_twighlight.jpg
file among the downloadable files that accompany this topic.
