Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: How to render and Black and White?

TheJediMaster opened this issue on Jan 24, 2008 · 8 posts


TheJediMaster posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 3:44 PM

Thanks for help me,

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SamTherapy posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 4:53 PM

Either set all your materials to black and white or desaturate the image in Photoshop.

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Sivana posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 6:27 PM

Well, the best way is to convert the image in photoshop or what you are using for images.
It is possible to convert all textures before, but it makes not really sence and hasn´t the good result as in postwork. Poser can´t render b/w if the textures are colored. There is no option.


ashley9803 posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 10:49 PM

Black & White or greyscale? There's a difference.

raven posted Sat, 26 January 2008 at 8:28 AM

Sivana, Poser (versions 6 and 7) can render coloured textures in b/w if you use the material room. Insert a Math->hsv node between the root node and the image_map node and set saturation to 0. You would have to do that for all materials, but it can be done in Poser. Here's a picture to show what I mean (click it to see it bigger). The SkinHead material is the only one I've added the hsv node to to show the effect. As you can see, the neck, the lips and if you look closely the lacrimal is still in colour, but the face isn't.



TheJediMaster posted Sat, 26 January 2008 at 12:58 PM

Thanks Raven


Sivana posted Sat, 26 January 2008 at 2:58 PM

Oh! Thanks Raven, I haven´t knowen this yet!!


sebastel posted Sun, 27 January 2008 at 2:02 AM

i do not want to split hair, but ... desaturating is not the nicest option, since it gives you dull, grey-in-grey results. well, it's a matter of taste of course, so please don't flame me for just an opinion.

just like in photography, i'd recommend to use the channel mixer (offered in most 2D graphical programs like GIMP or photoshop). so - render in colour in poser, and "black/whitify" the result.

for photoshop, there are also quite a lot of ready made b&w conversion plugins available.

regards,
sebastian