I'm having an issue with the final output of my render. Everything looks great in the Live Viewer and the Picture Viewer but once I open the .tiff or PSD, the image is incredibly blown out. It's not something I can fix in the image editing software as the blown out pixels are actually blown out to ...

Hi Beppe,

I have tried it both ways. With the tag on the fountain pen and with it off. It seemed to have no difference either way. I'll PM you the C4D file.

I have an interesting (read: maddening) issue with having my shadows appear when it comes time to render. The shadow catcher method works when I do a simple test, but not on the scene I need it for.

Example:

I did a simple test to show what I'm after. Below is a simple sphere on top of a plane ...