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    Tips and tricks for post rendering

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      mwm5053
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      I would definitely be interested great idea. I've been wanting to get into post-pro for sometime now but not sure how to.

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      • soloS
        solo
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        I'd love a tutorial on post processing as I suck at it, hence I spend more time modeling, texturing and populating scenes so I have less post work to do.

        The only problem is I use Paintshop X4 and all the cool tutorials around are Photoshop πŸ˜•

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        • unigamiU
          unigami
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          Great idea - I'm definitely interested!

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            Vicspa
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            count me in since I do a lot of post pro

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              wyatt
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              Yes, please. πŸ‘

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                boofredlay
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                +1

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                • eidam655E
                  eidam655
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                  also a +1 from me, the struggle for the best modeling/post-pro balance is neverending πŸ˜„

                  I'm using SketchUp 2017, V-Ray 3.4

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                    sepo
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                    +2

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                      baz
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                      +1

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                      • dazzaD
                        dazza
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                        +1
                        Yes please, great idea!

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                          davidh
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                          OK,here are 2 more tips,still in the winter theme.The first is making plants look icy/frosty.

                          FROST COVERED PLANTS:
                          1.open green plant and duplicate layer
                          2.desaturate the copied layer
                          3.Increase curves(see seting on jpg attached).This results in an almost white image.
                          4.selectively erase the copied white image from the bottom up.

                          BLENDING LARGE AREAS OF FOREGROUND:
                          The first image shows a screensnap of a recent project.What is missing is the main snow foreground.
                          1.Find a source image with the correct/similar lighting.
                          2.select the part you want -but use a feathering of 20-25 in the selection so the edges are blurred.You can see in the middle image that there are elements projecting up but these can easily be hidden with vegetation.Then start copying the layer around,again selectively erasing.
                          The main thing to understand with adding large areas of foreground is to feather/blur the edges.It isnt any more complicated than that.

                          I will upload a new one later showing how I add individual parts of snow,such as is on the lower wall in this image.I can promise you it wont be complicated.


                          01 ICY PLANT.jpg


                          02 BLENDING FOREGROUND.jpg

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                            john.warburton
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                            Go for it - would suit me!

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                            • utilerU
                              utiler
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                              And me too.... πŸ‘

                              What else do you need now Rich? πŸ˜‰

                              Just Curious...

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                              • Rich O BrienR
                                Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                Money

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                                  MartinK
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                                  πŸ‘ πŸ‘

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                                  • marked001M
                                    marked001
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                                    +10 from me.... i def need to up my post processing game! thanks David.

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                                      davidh
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                                      This is how I add snow to walls buildings etc.:
                                      1.select a piece of snow that matches your image
                                      2.select the outline and copy
                                      3.paste - then distort,scale to fit the scene
                                      4.add a layer mask- use a gradient light to dark from top downwards-this will help melt the snow onto the wall.depending on which way the sun is shining,you can add additional layer masks to show the snow melting in the light,and more solid in the shade.

                                      As I said,this is not complicated,
                                      but I would also add,surely there is someone else out there that has some other post-processing ideas.


                                      SNOW WALL.jpg

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                                      • Rich O BrienR
                                        Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                        Here you go.

                                        http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewforum.php?f=351

                                        If you're posting a tutorial please use the tutorial tag [Tutorial]

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                                          Gaieus
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                                          This is also Rich' virgin forum so easy with him! πŸ˜„

                                          Gai...

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