Let's start from the beginning. If you have the slightest intention of tweaking the color of your renders, something you should do in 99% of cases, forget about any format other than OpenEXR. It doesn't make much sense to spend all that GPU time rendering your projects only to end up generating a sequence of PNGs or, even worse, JPGs or something similar.Now that we've established a solid foundation to work with, we’ll end up with a nice sequence of EXR files if it's an animation, or a single...

Let's start from the beginning. If you have the slightest intention of tweaking the color of your renders, something you should do in 99% of cases, forget about any format other than OpenEXR. It doesn't make much sense to spend all that GPU time rendering your projects only to end up generating a sequence of PNGs or, even worse, JPGs or something similar.Now that we've established a solid foundation to work with, we’ll end up with a nice sequence of EXR files if it's an animation, or a single...