Dear NG,

No matter what I do it's really difficult to have the same render of
Terragen for my terrains in my Pov.. so I decided to try this trick on to
render my background in Terragen and the objects in Pov and then use Gimp
(my only photoeditor) to merge the background with the objects.

I am not yet very professional at this, so some advises would be much
appreciated. I try to but a lightsource exactly at the position of the sun
where it is declared in Terragen so that the shadows would be realistic
when I mix the images... Then I try to select part of my pov image by color
in Gimp and cut them and then put them in the background that I created in
Terragen. I am still feeling that I might get a bad work on this .. and
many will notice that the two images are made at different times. I was
looking for a way to find a script in Gimp that seperates the image and the
shadows into different layers for each image (by some color selection
method.. etc.) but I couldn't find one .. I think this functionality one
can find in photoshop..

I would of course just prefer to have all the image rendered in pov (after
some magical teragen-forrester combo to produce the pov).. but that's
really looks impossible (and I have limited time... I want to finish the
picture this month) as pov really doesn't produce the terrain scenes
exactly like that in Terragen.

Would appreciate any comments/advises/suggestions.

Sincerely,
Jose Capco

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