BabaJ

What do you mean. You are showing the Y values as zeroed out(and you said that is correct).
What Y values did you want 'preserved' from the DXF file?(the screen shot you posted shows both images are the same).

jsmack
Photoshop should have no problem reading exr, which does not divide by alpha, and which should match the render view more closely.

> njm818.
Indeed Photoshop works with exrs really well.
Personally when I work on a project and am going to do a render specifically to export out to Photoshop, I find I don't do much 'fine tuning' of the render beforehand.
With exrs in Photoshop I rarely have to do much to get a desired final image other than create an exposure adjustment layer and adjust gamma.

...wonder when Houdini 21.0 is coming out though.