Tips and tricks for post rendering

[dazza]

+1
Yes please, great idea!

[davidh]

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.

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[john.warburton]

Go for it - would suit me!

[utiler]

And me too....

What else do you need now Rich?

[Rich O Brien]

Money

[MartinK]

[marked001]

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

[davidh]

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.

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[Rich O Brien]

Here you go.

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

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

[Gaieus]

This is also Rich' virgin forum so easy with him!