> Quote - But - Anton - now you have me wondering. You used the word "compositing" which I consider to be significantly more than just touch-up. Do you think those eyes were not rendered?

I think there was cleanup. Artists want their images to be the best. And there is nothing wrong with that. Even alot of Rendo and Daz promo images are retouched. I actually have some photoshop techniques I use that will reveal otherwise undetectable postwork.

I want to do a tutorial on detecting postwork, not so much to hunt for edited product renders, but rather as a way to improve artwork by finding hidden flaws, etc

I used to have a pretty good tutorial on photo/render compositing. Here is a before/after from it. This is an extreme example where entire sections of photos are graphed onto the render. I notice this alot in many images to some extent; mostly in small corners of the face.

I have no issues with postwork on artwork, but it can make it hard to know what you are really looking at.

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

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