Risus opened this issue on Mar 05, 2014 ยท 23 posts
Risus posted Wed, 05 March 2014 at 8:20 PM
Thanks for the replies! Yes, I was referring to the type of light postwork that I mentioned (color, contrast, texture) rather than actual paintovers. I'm just wondering whether or not a lot of people here or on other art communities tend to "enhance" their renders with smoothing or glow effects, things like that, or if it's all done within Poser in most cases.
Personally, I have a constant urge to play around with and postwork a lot of my renders but often feel like it's cheating, and am immensely satisfied when I feel one hundred percent happy with a raw render. For example, this one has no postwork at all and I love the coloring and feel of it, whereas the original render of this one was very dull and took a lot of color/contrast/texture work afterwards to get the right look. I suppose with enough trial and error I could have done it within Poser but there you have it.
That said, I do think the majority of my renders now are useable right off the bat and I've found myself tweaking increasingly few of them later on. It's just something I was curious about when it comes to other DAZ/Poser users, that's all!