Tomsde opened this issue on May 15, 2009 · 327 posts
dphoadley posted Mon, 01 June 2009 at 2:51 AM
Dear Bagginsbill,
I'm not sure if this is a practice that you approve, but lately I also postwork my renders in Photoshop in a three layer process. After the standard retouching of artifacts, patching the poke-through, and softening the skin folds of the elbows, etc., I then do the following.
I duplicate my render into three layers.
1st layer I do a Gaussian blur filter 0f 6 (or is it 0.6, can't remember offhand), set it to normal and 100% opacity.
2nd layer I do a Sharpen More filter, and set it to normal and 70% opacity.
3rd layer I do nothing, but set it to Soft Light at between 50%-100% opacity. this process seems to me to bring out an increased richness and detail in the final copy of the render.
DPH