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haha, great pic Solo!

@kwistenbiebel said:

Sorry guys but does 'Rhino' refer to 3D in any way?
I mean, a rhinoceros is not exactly sexy ...(at least not to me)

What about 'MOI', which just means 'me' in French...
Or 'Maya'...which is a comic figure (a bee) from the eighties.

Well, no those names don't really have much to do with 3D CAD (although MOI stands for Moment Of Inspiration which is at least aspirational), but importantly, Rhino and Maya are just cool words in English. Not only do they sound cool, but one is nature's tank (panzer), a beautiful, fast, fearsome beast and the other is an ancient civilisation renowned for incredible surveying ability, stonemasonry and workmanship. Ketchup is not a cool word, nor a cool product and SketchUp is frankly the sort of awful pun a 5-year-old would laugh at.

Wow, I'd forgotten how much I disliked the name! :eugeek:

Jackson

Remus is correct...it appeared with the PS CS versions.

However, you can achieve the same effects by using the "depth mask" as an alpha channel and (depending on what you want to do...make the near blurred or the far blurred) simply use Gausian blur to throw the area "out of focus." In fact, this will also work with other image editors such as GIMP (which incidentally has a Gausian filter capable of finer tuning than Photoshop's).

The Photoshop CS lens blur filter complicates matters needlessly. I almost never use it.

Incidentally, once you have a depth mask as an alpha channel, you can control its relative strength using Levels on the channel. Want things to get blurry real fast, as if you used a telescopic lens? Increase the contrast in the depth mask channel.

I also use depth mask channels to simulate the watercolorist's traditional "atmospheric perspective"--in other words, things that are far away are more gray (desaturated) compared to foreground objects.

If I have a little time later today I'll post some examples.

Not much use in external renderers, but I've had good luck using the watermark feature to place backgrounds, skies, etc inside the model and than export the whole scene. Take the extra step out of doing it in photoshop, and you also get nicer edges, transparencies, shadows than having to cut out the background in photoshop to put in a background or sky.

Depending on the background though, it can somewhat limit the scene shots.

(crojack)

such a nice model! and that with only 4 hinges good job 👍