Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: what do people actually do in photoshop and stuff? (postwork...)

Joster opened this issue on Jan 18, 2003 ยท 59 posts


EricofSD posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 1:57 AM

hmmm, my reply to fls13 seems to have not posted... I agree, the better the render the easier the postwork goes. Some things you can't fix unless there's a ton of time to do it. For example, the breasts probably should morph to her left a bit, like a slight sag with gravity, to fit the bikini top better. If that shifts the clothing too much then get the best you can and post work it. Her left breast can be smudged into place. Her right one would take more work. The bottom of her right breast would be smudgable, but the cleavage presents a problem in trying to fill the bikini and still keep the texture. The other choice would be to smudge a different curve and reshadow the right bikini top material. I find that as I fix things, other things stand out. So its good to get away from the image for a day or so and come back. Like the left thumb still isn't right to me, and she could have some highlight on her left thumb nail polish. Maybe give both more reflection. That's better done in the render though. The eye whites should shadow around the corners a bit too now, and that didn't stand out before. Now that there's more hair, the right neck needs to be shadowed more. Things like that. Sometimes its necessary to shadow the teeth, or the corners of the mouth. Reflections in the eyes can be postwork as well. And lets not forget the glowing nostrils, which you don't have here, but often does occur. Then its important to decide what you want to stand out. What will the viewer notice first? The eyes? The lips? Is anything else distracting that so that people don't see what you want? That's where having others look at the image helps a lot.