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Post Render Photoshop tutorial recommendations

SainsySainsy Posts: 50
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

Hi All - Does anybody have any good recommendations for photoshop tutorials post render, and in particular for portraits.

Many thanks.

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    well that is a very open question as postwork can comprise many things. It all depends on what you want to do. Once you can answer that question yourself then you should be able to search the net for that particular method.

  • SainsySainsy Posts: 50
    edited June 2015

    Sorry Szark - you are right. I have only been using Daz for the last couple of months and have been completely hooked. Having never used anything like this or photoshop before (which I guess you have worked out from the naivety of my original question) it has been one hell of a learning curve,

    I guess I have been so inspired by the fantastic artwork in the galleries on here - a number of them include +postwork in the description but rarely go any further. Perhaps what I should have asked what are the common techniques that artists use when photoshopping their portrait renders - what are the basic things that everyone should know. But even that is vague. When I know the question I shall come back and ask for an answer.

    Thanks for taking the time to reply.

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  • SainsySainsy Posts: 50
    edited December 1969

    BTW - just read the Ira Glass quote :-) and your piece on 'Things to consider...'

    I'll start there

    Thanks again

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    I was lucky to use Photoshop for a number of years before getting in to this rendering game and I am still learning about postwork of various forms.

    What I like to do is to get the render looking pretty much how I want it to look and then in Photoshop I increase colour saturation Ctrl + U to bring up that. Then the other one is duplicate the render layer so it is on top of the base render layer and use a Highpass Filter on the top layer, normally under Filters> Others and use a pixel size of 1-2, then set the Blend mode of the layer to Overlay and adjust the Opacity of that layer to suit.

    So with that you could look for

    Increasing Colour Saturation
    Highpass Filter
    Layer Blend Mode
    Layer Opacity.

    Also look for how to use Mask Layers and what they are. Once you get an understanding of what a Mask is and how to use it I can point you to a cool tool for DS to Make Mask layer with DS to use in PS. The reason why I like mask layer is that it lets me change colour or apply effects to just one part of a scene or many parts of a scene.

    http://itiseyemeeszark.deviantart.com/art/Mask-and-Multipass-Toolbox-507883848 if you look at that image all the changes were done via masks in PS.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    A lot of my postwork is simply done by using a Photo filter. After all I reckon, if it's good enough for a photographer to use it, then it's good enough for me. My favourite set is from Optikverve, and they are free, but may not work with newer versions of Photoshop.

    http://www.optikvervelabs.com/

  • seeker273seeker273 Posts: 449
    edited June 2015

    I used this tutorial by laticis
    http://laticis.deviantart.com/art/LI-Post-Work-TIP-Reparing-a-Render-381558233?q=gallery:Laticis/40614156&qo=2

    for this image and I've used the same process in all renders ever since. It changed all of my work and I swear by it. Give it a try, nothing to lose right :)

    I_Dwarf_Youtut.jpg
    960 x 650 - 354K
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  • RobinsonRobinson Posts: 751
    seeker273 said:

    I used this tutorial by laticis
    http://laticis.deviantart.com/art/LI-Post-Work-TIP-Reparing-a-Render-381558233?q=gallery:Laticis/40614156&qo=2

    for this image and I've used the same process in all renders ever since. It changed all of my work and I swear by it. Give it a try, nothing to lose right :)

    I look at this and can't help thinking that if there's so much post work needed, the scene lighting was poorly done.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    no it is a case of not worring about the lighting so much and doing it in post. He can light a scene btw and it isn't a case of the postwork is "needed" but more of using different tools to make your art. No one can tell you what you should use or do. Each to their own and all that.

  • JamesJABJamesJAB Posts: 1,760

    Here is a potrait that I rendered as a lighting test.  I created a ring light around my camera lens as an experiment, played with the settings and hit render.
    In Photoshop I added a little noise then applied the "Camera Raw" filter and adjusted the settings till I liked what I saw.
    Before

    After

  • linvanchenelinvanchene Posts: 1,382
    edited June 2017

    Photoshop filters are indeed a great place to start.

    The "Nik Collection" is easy to use and is available for free as well:

    https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

    - Basic color correction: Viveza

    - Noise reduction: Dfine

    - create interesting effects with templates: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro

    install. have fun...

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