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Subject: B/W

Llexis opened this issue on May 21, 2004 · 5 posts
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Llexis ( ) posted Fri, 21 May 2004 at 9:02 PM · edited Sat, 07 December 2024 at 10:51 PM

Seeing that I was completly ignored when I posted this same question in the chat, I guess my only course of action is to bring my question here.

I'm still learning the ropes and the Poser manual gives no hints on it... When creating a black and white piece is there anything I need to do in the Poser program that's special or is it all done in postwork?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Llexis

mateo_sancarlos ( ) posted Fri, 21 May 2004 at 9:19 PM

Desaturate the render in PSP or APS.

Cage ( ) posted Sat, 22 May 2004 at 1:30 AM

Or you could use material settings that are all in black and white. Someone posted a Groucho dork a few years ago, and his materials were B&W.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

CastIronFlamingo ( ) posted Sat, 22 May 2004 at 5:43 AM

Desaturating in post is easy and will get you a good result. The alternative to simple b/w materials is to copy your maps, desaturate those, then render in Poser. That'll let you retain your detail. Obviously you'll also want to convert all your lights to shades of grey as well (average the RGB values then set all three values to that number). IMHO, a good b/w image is more about lighting, shadows and contrast rather than just the simple lack of color. Don't forget to select an appropriate camera focal length for the style of image you're doing. The photography forums might be of some use to you on this one.

Llexis ( ) posted Sat, 22 May 2004 at 6:42 PM

Thanks! Anymore suggestions or helpful hints are very welcome and thats again.

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