Nevertrumper posted at 11:48 AM Thu, 13 April 2023 - #4462040

Alright, let‘ s talk about YOUR render.

First: Well done, without a doubt.

Second: Which is a good and a bad thing at the same time, I doubt, it could have done any better.

If I had seen this render in any other 3d art gallery, without knowing Poser, I would ask what post filter you have used.

Hard to describe.

Open an empty scene in Poser with default settings and look at the empty editor.

It looks like this collar pattern you can see there is still present with every render. Some more, some less.

It gives every Poser render this „brownish“ flatness. 

Back in the days of PP2014, I purchased the Octane render plug in to avoid that tint.

So obviously, it is not just a firefly problem, but a superfly problem as well.

Check it out yourself, if possible.

I don’t know, what other softwares you are using, but export your scene to any other app of your choice. Recreate light and camera and render again.

I bet it will be mindblowing.

Color space.

A while ago, Blender Guru made a video about it, how Cycles back then had such a limited color space it was worse than that of a real-life disposable camera. With that video, he also advertised a free blender plugin that allowed cycles to render in filmic color space - in other words, the range of light captured by professional cinema cameras. Soon after, they added that to base Blender.

I've been begging Poser devs to bring that to Superfly ever since, but thing is: Poser renders in high-dynamic range, and that range is limited by the format you save out your render to. I've published a tutorial on how to grab the HDR raw render, load it in Photoshop and adjust it to similar to filmic.

Poser 13 doesn't require that anymore. The new post-render options have gamma, contrast etc sliders so you can do that color space and color correction inside Poser.

I just didn't want to apply post effects to the render. I wanted it raw for the splash image.

Anything else you want to nitpick in the attempt to save face or are you gonna accept that you were wrong to accuse everything P13 if being "heavily photoshopped" already?

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