Questions tagged [.exr]

EXR is a file format often used to create High Dynamic Range images (HDRis) because of its high resolution color values. Blender can use EXR files in image nodes and as part of the world shader. Blender can also render to EXR files. Use this tag for questions related to importing, using, and rendering EXR format files in Blender.

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EXR color difference to PNG

To avoid the problems that PNG has with fire Transparency, I exported the images in EXR format, but when I compare them to the PNG counterpart, the colours in the EXR image are way to blown out. Why ...
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How to render a 30K image with cycles?

I have to render an image of 27000 x 7000 for a 150dpi print. The scene is quite big, but cycles preview and a render in 2700x7000 works as expected. If I hit render my memory raises up to 20gb, but ...
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Combining .exr files?

Is it possible to composite multiple .exr files into a single .exr file? For example, if one .exr file contains several passes and another contains only one pass could they be combined to contained ...
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How do you apply colormanagement settings to EXR files?

How do you apply colormanagement settings to EXR files? When i do some color adjustment by using colormanagement and try to save exr file and open it in photoshop it looks like colormanagement ...
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I have tried to import EXR files to Davinci Resolve with the LUT's

Here are some pictures of my settings and result: On the right side of this image is the EXR file imported normally, and on the left side is a PNG without transparency. That's the look I want to get ...
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Getting the depth of every pixel to the center of projection of the camera in Blender

I am trying to get the depth of every pixel to the center of the projection of the camera in blender. I am trying to get the actual depth and not a normalized value. Hence have I tried the following ...
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Export multi-pass .exr image sequence from cycles?

Is it possible to export an image sequence (in this case a sequence of .exrs) from cycles? For example, I have multiple sets of .exrs for different passes I want to combine into one set of .exr image ...
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Light Presets .exr

I would like to install light presets for Blender to automate my lightning in my scenes. I have some .exr files (from Greyscalegorilla) but I don't know how to do it on Blender to make it work. Can ...
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Rendering multi-layer EXR using File Output node in Python

I'm writing a multi-view synthetic dataset generator and I want to save my rendered images as multi-layer EXR. I have a basic Python script that loads a template file with the compositing nodes below, ...
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Saving Z data linearly (accurate depth map)

I want to create a depth map via the node editor by mapping the "Z" of my render to a "Map Value" node with Size 0.05. Basically this scales the depth down to 1/20th of it. When I save the resulting ...
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Apply filmic color management to an EXR file - post processing in photoshop

I am taking EXR files to photoshop for post processing, but I want the filmic color management applied. Is there a different file format I should be using, or is there a way to apply filmic color ...
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convert OpenEXR float to color value

I am exporting a scene to OpenEXR multichannel (with no compression and FULL format) and read it back using Python. Here is the code ...
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How can I get rid of the black dots or black pixels in a float 32-bit EXR baked displacement map?

When I bake a 32-bit displacement map, it has these annoying black dots or black pixels in it: How do I get rid of these?
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Cycles save as EXR image

I'm using Blender Cycles to bake the rendering result into the texture. Yet, I've observed that many parts of the texture is over-saturated, but I could only save the resulting texture image into a ...
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OpenEXR making sense of RGB float values

I rendered and exported a scene with cycles as MultiChannel OpenEXR, then read it back in with OpenEXR binding for Python. The header looks like below. As it indicates, most of the field are floats (...
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Cycles OpenEXR output way too dark when imported into After Effects [duplicate]

When I render to OpenEXR (multilayer) in Blender 2.80 (Cycles) and then import it back into After Effects (2019) the image looks way too dark. What it looks like in Blender 2.80: What it looks like ...
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Black contour artifacts when using OpenEXR renders with bloom and transparency background in VSE [duplicate]

I try to render some shapes with EEVEE bloom effect and transparent background. I understood that the rendered file output had to be OpenEXR instead of PNG format in order to keep the effect and the ...
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EXR 32 bit alphaover white gives me grey in compositing

I am using the compositor to finalize an animation I did in OpenEXR multilayer at 32 bits. I am pretty new with these types of things regarding color management... etc. I am sure this has to do with ...
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